How To Install libatomic.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libatomic.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libatomic.x86_64 is The GNU Atomic library

Introduction

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

What is `libatomic.x86_64`

This package contains the GNU Atomic library which is a GCC support runtime library for atomic operations not supported by hardware.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libatomic.x86_64

How To Uninstall libatomic.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libatomic.x86_64

libatomic.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libatomic.so.1
/usr/lib64/libatomic.so.1.2.0

References

libatomic.x86_64 website

Summary

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