How To Install libcap-ng.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap-ng.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libcap-ng.x86_64 is An alternate posix capabilities library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap-ng.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libcap-ng.x86_64`

Libcap-ng is a library that makes using posix capabilities easier

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

Install libcap-ng.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 libcap-ng.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcap-ng.x86_64

How To Uninstall libcap-ng.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libcap-ng.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libcap-ng.x86_64

libcap-ng.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/lib64/libcap-ng.so.0
/lib64/libcap-ng.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcap-ng-0.7.5
/usr/share/doc/libcap-ng-0.7.5/COPYING.LIB

References

libcap-ng.x86_64 website

Summary

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