How To Install ipset-service.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipset-service.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is ipset-service.noarch

This package provides the service ipset that is split out of the base package since it is not active by default.

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

Install ipset-service.noarch 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-service.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipset-service.noarch

How To Uninstall ipset-service.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ipset-service.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ipset-service.noarch

ipset-service.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/ipset
/etc/sysconfig/ipset-config
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipset.service
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/ipset
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/ipset/save
/usr/libexec/ipset
/usr/libexec/ipset/ipset.start-stop

References

• ipset-service.noarch website

Summary

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