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

In this tutorial we learn how to install gpm-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gpm-libs.x86_64 is Dynamic library for for the gpm

Introduction

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

What is `gpm-libs.x86_64`

This package contains the libgpm.so dynamic library which contains the gpm system calls and library functions.

We can use yum to install gpm-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 gpm-libs.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install gpm-libs.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove gpm-libs.x86_64

gpm-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgpm.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgpm.so.2.1.0

References

gpm-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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