How To Install dhcp-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dhcp-libs.x86_64 is Shared libraries used by ISC dhcp client and server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dhcp-libs.x86_64`

This package contains shared libraries used by ISC dhcp client and server

We can use yum to install dhcp-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dhcp-libs.x86_64.

Install dhcp-libs.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 dhcp-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dhcp-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall dhcp-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dhcp-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dhcp-libs.x86_64

dhcp-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libdhcpctl.so.0
/usr/lib64/libdhcpctl.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libomapi.so.0
/usr/lib64/libomapi.so.0.0.0

References

dhcp-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.