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

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipset-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ipset-libs.x86_64 is Shared library providing the IP sets functionality

Introduction

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

What is `ipset-libs.x86_64`

This package contains the libraries which provide the IP sets funcionality.

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

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

sudo yum -y install ipset-libs.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove ipset-libs.x86_64

ipset-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libipset.so.3
/usr/lib64/libipset.so.3.6.0
/usr/share/doc/ipset-libs-6.29
/usr/share/doc/ipset-libs-6.29/COPYING

References

ipset-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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