How To Install libcrypt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcrypt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libcrypt.x86_64 is Password hashing library (non-NSS version)
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcrypt.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libcrypt.x86_64
This package provides the crypt function, which implements password hashing. The glibc implementation of the cryptographic algorithms is used by this package.
We can use yum
to install libcrypt.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcrypt.x86_64.
Install libcrypt.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 libcrypt.x86_64
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libcrypt.x86_64
How To Uninstall libcrypt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libcrypt.x86_64
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libcrypt.x86_64
libcrypt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/lib64/libcrypt-2.26.so
/lib64/libcrypt.so.1
/usr/share/doc/libcrypt-2.26
/usr/share/doc/libcrypt-2.26/README.ufc-crypt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcrypt.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.