How To Install gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 is Macros for developing GDM extensions to PAM

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64

The gdm-pam-extensions-devel package contains headers and other files that are helpful to PAM modules wishing to support GDM specific authentication features.

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

Install gdm-pam-extensions-devel.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 gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64

gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/gdm/gdm-pam-extensions.h
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/gdm-pam-extensions.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdm-pam-extensions-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.