How To Install finger-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is finger-server.x86_64
Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they’ve been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger-server package includes a standard finger server. The server daemon (fingerd) must be started using systemctl to receive finger requests. You should install finger-server if your system is used by multiple users and you’d like finger information to be available.
We can use yum to install finger-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install finger-server.x86_64.
Install finger-server.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 finger-server.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install finger-server.x86_64
How To Uninstall finger-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the finger-server.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove finger-server.x86_64
finger-server.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib/systemd/system/finger.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/in.fingerd
/usr/share/doc/finger-server-0.17
/usr/share/doc/finger-server-0.17/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fingerd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/in.fingerd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.