How To Install libibcm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libibcm.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libibcm.x86_64 is Userspace InfiniBand Connection Manager

Introduction

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

What is `libibcm.x86_64`

libibcm provides a userspace library that handles the majority of the low level work required to open an RDMA connection between two machines.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libibcm.x86_64

How To Uninstall libibcm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libibcm.x86_64

libibcm.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libibcm.so.1
/usr/lib64/libibcm.so.1.0.15
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core-15/libibcm.md

References

libibcm.x86_64 website

Summary

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