How To Install finger.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install finger.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. finger.x86_64 is The finger client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install finger.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `finger.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 package includes a standard finger client. You should install finger if you’d like to retrieve finger information from other systems.

We can use yum to install finger.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.x86_64.

Install finger.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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install finger.x86_64

How To Uninstall finger.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the finger.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove finger.x86_64

finger.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/finger
/usr/share/doc/finger-0.17
/usr/share/doc/finger-0.17/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/finger.1.gz

References

finger.x86_64 website

Summary

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