How To Install libdbi-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbi-drivers.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libdbi-drivers.x86_64 is Database-specific drivers for libdbi

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbi-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libdbi-drivers.x86_64

libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl. Writing one generic set of code, programmers can leverage the power of multiple databases and multiple simultaneous database connections by using this framework. libdbi-drivers contains the database-specific plugins needed to connect libdbi to particular database servers.

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

Install libdbi-drivers.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 libdbi-drivers.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdbi-drivers.x86_64

How To Uninstall libdbi-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libdbi-drivers.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libdbi-drivers.x86_64

libdbi-drivers.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/dbd
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/README
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c102.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c120.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c128.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c168.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c173.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c26.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c34.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c35.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c39.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c40.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c44.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c47.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c93.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c94.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/c98.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/copying-fdl.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/dbd_mysql.pdf
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/dbd_pgsql.pdf
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/dbd_sqlite3.pdf
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/f15.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/f23.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/f24.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/f29.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/f30.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/install-build.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/install-prereq.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/install.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/intro.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/options.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/specific.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x123.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x131.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x171.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x176.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x195.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x203.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x42.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x47.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x50.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x56.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x61.html
/usr/share/doc/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3/x64.html

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Summary

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