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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libacl-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libacl-devel.x86_64 is Files needed for building programs with libacl

Introduction

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

What is libacl-devel.x86_64

This package contains header files and documentation needed to develop programs which make use of the access control list programming interface defined in POSIX 1003.1e draft standard 17.

We can use yum to install libacl-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 libacl-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libacl-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libacl-devel.x86_64

libacl-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/acl
/usr/include/acl/libacl.h
/usr/include/sys/acl.h
/usr/lib64/libacl.so
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_add_perm.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_calc_mask.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_check.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_clear_perms.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_cmp.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_copy_entry.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_copy_ext.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_copy_int.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_create_entry.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_delete_def_file.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_delete_entry.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_delete_perm.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_dup.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_entries.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_equiv_mode.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_error.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_extended_fd.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_extended_file.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_extended_file_nofollow.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_free.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_from_mode.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_from_text.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_get_entry.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_get_fd.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_get_file.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_get_perm.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_get_permset.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_get_qualifier.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_get_tag_type.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_init.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_set_fd.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_set_file.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_set_permset.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_set_qualifier.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_set_tag_type.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_size.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_to_any_text.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_to_text.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/acl_valid.3.gz

References

Summary

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