How To Install edac-utils.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install edac-utils.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. edac-utils.i686 is Userspace helper for kernel EDAC drivers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install edac-utils.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `edac-utils.i686`

EDAC is the current set of drivers in the Linux kernel that handle detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on i386 and x86_64 architectures. This userspace component consists of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels are loaded at system startup, as well as a library and utility for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.

We can use yum to install edac-utils.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install edac-utils.i686.

Install edac-utils.i686 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 edac-utils.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install edac-utils.i686

How To Uninstall edac-utils.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the edac-utils.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove edac-utils.i686

edac-utils.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/edac
/etc/edac/labels.db
/usr/bin/edac-util
/usr/lib/libedac.so.1
/usr/lib/libedac.so.1.1.0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/edac.service
/usr/sbin/edac-ctl
/usr/share/doc/edac-utils-0.16
/usr/share/doc/edac-utils-0.16/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/edac-utils-0.16/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/edac-utils-0.16/DISCLAIMER
/usr/share/doc/edac-utils-0.16/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/edac-utils-0.16/README
/usr/share/man/man1/edac-util.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/edac.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/edac-ctl.8.gz

References

edac-utils.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install edac-utils.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.