How To Install gnutls.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnutls.x86_64 is A TLS protocol implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gnutls.x86_64`

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface (API) to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS #12, OpenPGP and other required structures.

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

Install gnutls.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 gnutls.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnutls.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnutls.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnutls.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnutls.x86_64

gnutls.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/.libgnutls.so.28.43.3.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libgnutls.so.28.hmac
/usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.28
/usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.28.43.3
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-3.3.29
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-3.3.29/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-3.3.29/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-3.3.29/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-3.3.29/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-3.3.29/README
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-3.3.29/THANKS
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnutls.mo

References

gnutls.x86_64 website

Summary

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