How To Install libevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libevent.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libevent.x86_64 is Abstract asynchronous event notification library

Introduction

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

What is libevent.x86_64

The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. libevent is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event driven network servers. An application just needs to call event_dispatch() and can then add or remove events dynamically without having to change the event loop.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libevent.x86_64

How To Uninstall libevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libevent.x86_64

libevent.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5
/usr/lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5.1.9
/usr/lib64/libevent_core-2.0.so.5
/usr/lib64/libevent_core-2.0.so.5.1.9
/usr/lib64/libevent_extra-2.0.so.5
/usr/lib64/libevent_extra-2.0.so.5.1.9
/usr/lib64/libevent_openssl-2.0.so.5
/usr/lib64/libevent_openssl-2.0.so.5.1.9
/usr/lib64/libevent_pthreads-2.0.so.5
/usr/lib64/libevent_pthreads-2.0.so.5.1.9
/usr/share/doc/libevent-2.0.21
/usr/share/doc/libevent-2.0.21/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libevent-2.0.21/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libevent-2.0.21/README

References

Summary

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