How To Install kpartx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install kpartx.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. kpartx.x86_64 is Partition device manager for device-mapper devices

Introduction

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

What is `kpartx.x86_64`

kpartx manages partition creation and removal for device-mapper devices.

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

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

sudo yum -y install kpartx.x86_64

How To Uninstall kpartx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove kpartx.x86_64

kpartx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/kpartx
/usr/share/man/man8/kpartx.8.gz

References

kpartx.x86_64 website

Summary

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