How To Install libguestfs-java.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-java.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libguestfs-java.x86_64 is Java bindings for libguestfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-java.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libguestfs-java.x86_64

libguestfs-java contains Java bindings for libguestfs. If you want to develop software in Java which uses libguestfs, then you will also need libguestfs-java-devel.

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

Install libguestfs-java.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 libguestfs-java.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-java.x86_64

How To Uninstall libguestfs-java.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libguestfs-java.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libguestfs-java.x86_64

libguestfs-java.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libguestfs_jni.so.1
/usr/lib64/libguestfs_jni.so.1.36.10
/usr/share/java/libguestfs.jar

References

Summary

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