How To Install kmod-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmod-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is kmod-devel.x86_64

The kmod-devel package provides header files used for development of applications that wish to load or unload Linux kernel modules.

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

Install kmod-devel.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 kmod-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kmod-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall kmod-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the kmod-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove kmod-devel.x86_64

kmod-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/libkmod.h
/usr/lib64/libkmod.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libkmod.pc

References

• kmod-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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