How To Install libaio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libaio.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libaio.x86_64 is Linux-native asynchronous I/O access library

Introduction

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

What is `libaio.x86_64`

The Linux-native asynchronous I/O facility (“async I/O”, or “aio”) has a richer API and capability set than the simple POSIX async I/O facility. This library, libaio, provides the Linux-native API for async I/O. The POSIX async I/O facility requires this library in order to provide kernel-accelerated async I/O capabilities, as do applications which require the Linux-native async I/O API.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libaio.x86_64

How To Uninstall libaio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libaio.x86_64

libaio.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/lib64/libaio.so.1
/lib64/libaio.so.1.0.0
/lib64/libaio.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libaio-0.3.109
/usr/share/doc/libaio-0.3.109/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libaio-0.3.109/TODO

References

libaio.x86_64 website

Summary

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