How To Install hostname.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install hostname.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. hostname.x86_64 is Utility to set/show the host name or domain name

Introduction

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

What is `hostname.x86_64`

This package provides commands which can be used to display the system’s DNS name, and to display or set its hostname or NIS domain name.

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

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

sudo yum -y install hostname.x86_64

How To Uninstall hostname.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove hostname.x86_64

hostname.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/bin/dnsdomainname
/bin/domainname
/bin/hostname
/bin/nisdomainname
/bin/ypdomainname
/usr/share/doc/hostname-3.13
/usr/share/doc/hostname-3.13/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/man/man1/dnsdomainname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/domainname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nisdomainname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ypdomainname.1.gz

References

hostname.x86_64 website

Summary

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