How To Install libhbalinux.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhbalinux.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libhbalinux.x86_64 is FC-HBAAPI implementation using scsi_transport_fc interfaces

Introduction

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

What is `libhbalinux.x86_64`

SNIA HBAAPI vendor library built on top of the scsi_transport_fc interfaces.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libhbalinux.x86_64

How To Uninstall libhbalinux.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libhbalinux.x86_64

libhbalinux.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libhbalinux.so.2
/usr/lib64/libhbalinux.so.2.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libhbalinux-1.0.17
/usr/share/doc/libhbalinux-1.0.17/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libhbalinux-1.0.17/README

References

libhbalinux.x86_64 website

Summary

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