How To Install fuse-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fuse-libs.x86_64 is File System in Userspace (FUSE) libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `fuse-libs.x86_64`

Devel With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program. This package contains the FUSE libraries.

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

Install fuse-libs.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 fuse-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fuse-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall fuse-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fuse-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fuse-libs.x86_64

fuse-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libfuse.so.2
/usr/lib64/libfuse.so.2.9.2
/usr/lib64/libulockmgr.so.1
/usr/lib64/libulockmgr.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/fuse-libs-2.9.2
/usr/share/doc/fuse-libs-2.9.2/COPYING.LIB

References

fuse-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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