How To Install libksba.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libksba.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libksba.x86_64 is CMS and X.509 library

Introduction

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

What is `libksba.x86_64`

KSBA (pronounced Kasbah) is a library to make X.509 certificates as well as the CMS easily accessible by other applications. Both specifications are building blocks of S/MIME and TLS.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libksba.x86_64

How To Uninstall libksba.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libksba.x86_64

libksba.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libksba.so.8
/usr/lib64/libksba.so.8.11.1
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/COPYING.GPLv3
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/COPYING.LGPLv3
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/VERSION

References

libksba.x86_64 website

Summary

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