How To Install libibverbs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libibverbs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libibverbs.i686
libibverbs is a library that allows userspace processes to use RDMA “verbs” as described in the InfiniBand Architecture Specification and the RDMA Protocol Verbs Specification. This includes direct hardware access from userspace to InfiniBand/iWARP adapters (kernel bypass) for fast path operations. Device-specific plug-in ibverbs userspace drivers are included - libcxgb4 - libhfi1 - libhns - libi40iw - libipathverbs - libmlx4 - libmlx5 - libmthca - libocrdma - libqedr - librxe - libsiw - libvmw_pvrdma
We can use yum to install libibverbs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libibverbs.i686.
Install libibverbs.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 libibverbs.i686 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libibverbs.i686
How To Uninstall libibverbs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libibverbs.i686 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libibverbs.i686
libibverbs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/libibverbs.d
/etc/libibverbs.d/bnxt_re.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/cxgb4.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/efa.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/hfi1verbs.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/hns.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/i40iw.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/ipathverbs.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/mlx4.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/mlx5.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/mthca.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/ocrdma.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/qedr.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/rxe.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/siw.driver
/etc/libibverbs.d/vmw_pvrdma.driver
/usr/lib/libibverbs
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libbnxt_re-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libcxgb4-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libefa-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libhfi1verbs-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libhns-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libi40iw-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libipathverbs-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libmlx4-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libmlx5-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libmthca-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libocrdma-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libqedr-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/librxe-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libsiw-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libibverbs/libvmw_pvrdma-rdmav34.so
/usr/lib/libmlx4.so.1
/usr/lib/libmlx4.so.1.0.35.0
/usr/lib/libmlx5.so.1
/usr/lib/libmlx5.so.1.19.35.0
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core/libibverbs.md
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libibverbs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.