How To Install libacl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libacl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libacl.x86_64 is Dynamic library for access control list support

Introduction

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

What is `libacl.x86_64`

This package contains the libacl.so dynamic library which contains the POSIX 1003.1e draft standard 17 functions for manipulating access control lists.

We can use yum to install libacl.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libacl.x86_64

How To Uninstall libacl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libacl.x86_64

libacl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libacl.so.1
/usr/lib64/libacl.so.1.1.0

References

libacl.x86_64 website

Summary

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