How To Install glibc-nss-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-nss-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is glibc-nss-devel.x86_64
The glibc-nss-devel package contains the object files necessary to compile applications and libraries which directly link against NSS modules supplied by glibc. This is a rare and special use case; regular development has to use the glibc-devel package instead.
We can use yum to install glibc-nss-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 glibc-nss-devel.x86_64.
Install glibc-nss-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 glibc-nss-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install glibc-nss-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall glibc-nss-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the glibc-nss-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove glibc-nss-devel.x86_64
glibc-nss-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/libnss_compat.so
/usr/lib64/libnss_db.so
/usr/lib64/libnss_dns.so
/usr/lib64/libnss_files.so
/usr/lib64/libnss_hesiod.so
/usr/lib64/libnss_nis.so
/usr/lib64/libnss_nisplus.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-nss-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.