How To Install libblkid.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblkid.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libblkid.x86_64 is Block device ID library

Introduction

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

What is `libblkid.x86_64`

This is block device identification library, part of util-linux.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libblkid.x86_64

How To Uninstall libblkid.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libblkid.x86_64

libblkid.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libblkid.so.1
/usr/lib64/libblkid.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-2.30.2
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-2.30.2/COPYING

References

libblkid.x86_64 website

Summary

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