How To Install libiscsi-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiscsi-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libiscsi-utils.x86_64 is iSCSI Client Utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiscsi-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libiscsi-utils.x86_64`

The libiscsi-utils package provides a set of assorted utilities to connect to iSCSI servers without having to set up the Linux iSCSI initiator.

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

Install libiscsi-utils.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 libiscsi-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libiscsi-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall libiscsi-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libiscsi-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libiscsi-utils.x86_64

libiscsi-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/iscsi-inq
/usr/bin/iscsi-ls
/usr/bin/iscsi-readcapacity16
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-utils-1.9.0
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-utils-1.9.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-utils-1.9.0/LICENCE-GPL-2.txt
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-utils-1.9.0/LICENCE-LGPL-2.1.txt
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-utils-1.9.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-utils-1.9.0/TODO

References

libiscsi-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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