How To Install folks-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install folks-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. folks-tools.x86_64 is Tools for folks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install folks-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `folks-tools.x86_64`

folks-tools contains a database and import tool.

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

Install folks-tools.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 folks-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install folks-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall folks-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the folks-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove folks-tools.x86_64

folks-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/folks-import
/usr/bin/folks-inspect

References

folks-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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