How To Install libblockdev-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libblockdev-utils.x86_64 is A library with utility functions for the libblockdev library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libblockdev-utils.x86_64`

The libblockdev-utils is a library providing utility functions used by the libblockdev library and its plugins.

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

Install libblockdev-utils.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 libblockdev-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libblockdev-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall libblockdev-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libblockdev-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libblockdev-utils.x86_64

libblockdev-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libbd_part_err.so.2
/usr/lib64/libbd_part_err.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/libbd_utils.so.2
/usr/lib64/libbd_utils.so.2.1.0

References

libblockdev-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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