How To Install fipscheck-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fipscheck-lib.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fipscheck-lib.x86_64 is Library files for fipscheck

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fipscheck-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `fipscheck-lib.x86_64`

This package contains the FIPSCheck library.

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

Install fipscheck-lib.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 fipscheck-lib.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fipscheck-lib.x86_64

How To Uninstall fipscheck-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fipscheck-lib.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fipscheck-lib.x86_64

fipscheck-lib.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/prelink.conf.d
/etc/prelink.conf.d/fipscheck.conf
/usr/lib64/fipscheck
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libfipscheck.so.1.2.1.hmac
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libfipscheck.so.1.hmac
/usr/lib64/libfipscheck.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfipscheck.so.1.2.1

References

fipscheck-lib.x86_64 website

Summary

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