How To Install libitm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libitm.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libitm.x86_64 is The GNU Transactional Memory library

Introduction

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

What is `libitm.x86_64`

This package contains the GNU Transactional Memory library which is a GCC transactional memory support runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libitm.x86_64

How To Uninstall libitm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libitm.x86_64

libitm.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libitm.so.1
/usr/lib64/libitm.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/info/libitm.info.gz

References

libitm.x86_64 website

Summary

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