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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmbim-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmbim-utils.x86_64 is Utilities to use the MBIM protocol from the command line

Introduction

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

What is `libmbim-utils.x86_64`

This package contains the utilities that make it easier to use MBIM functionality from the command line.

We can use yum to install libmbim-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 libmbim-utils.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libmbim-utils.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libmbim-utils.x86_64

libmbim-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/mbim-network
/usr/bin/mbimcli
/usr/libexec/mbim-proxy
/usr/share/man/man1/mbim-network.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mbimcli.1.gz

References

libmbim-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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