How To Install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64
SysV style init script for device-mapper-multipth. It needs to be installed only if systemd is not used as the system init process.
We can use yum to install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64.
Install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64
How To Uninstall device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64
device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/rc.d/init.d/multipathd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.