How To Install libkadm5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkadm5.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libkadm5.x86_64 is Kerberos 5 Administrative libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkadm5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libkadm5.x86_64`

Kerberos is a network authentication system. The libkadm5 package contains the libkadm5clnt and libkadm5serv shared objects, for use ONLY by kerberos itself. Do not depend on this package.

We can use yum to install libkadm5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libkadm5.x86_64.

Install libkadm5.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 libkadm5.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libkadm5.x86_64

How To Uninstall libkadm5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libkadm5.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libkadm5.x86_64

libkadm5.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libkadm5clnt.so
/usr/lib64/libkadm5clnt_mit.so
/usr/lib64/libkadm5clnt_mit.so.11
/usr/lib64/libkadm5clnt_mit.so.11.0
/usr/lib64/libkadm5srv.so
/usr/lib64/libkadm5srv_mit.so
/usr/lib64/libkadm5srv_mit.so.11
/usr/lib64/libkadm5srv_mit.so.11.0

References

libkadm5.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkadm5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.