How To Install libibumad.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libibumad.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libibumad.i686 is OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (userspace management

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libibumad.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libibumad.i686

libibumad provides the userspace management datagram (umad) library functions, which sit on top of the umad modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB diagnostic and management tools, including OpenSM.

We can use yum to install libibumad.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libibumad.i686.

Install libibumad.i686 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 libibumad.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libibumad.i686

How To Uninstall libibumad.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libibumad.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libibumad.i686

libibumad.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libibumad.so.3
/usr/lib/libibumad.so.3.2.35.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libibumad.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.