How To Install libmpx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpx.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmpx.x86_64 is The Memory Protection Extensions runtime libraries

Introduction

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

What is `libmpx.x86_64`

This package contains the Memory Protection Extensions runtime libraries which is used for -fcheck-pointer-bounds -mmpx instrumented programs.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmpx.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmpx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmpx.x86_64

libmpx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmpx.so.2
/usr/lib64/libmpx.so.2.0.1
/usr/lib64/libmpxwrappers.so.2
/usr/lib64/libmpxwrappers.so.2.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libmpx-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libmpx-7.3.1/ChangeLog.bz2

References

libmpx.x86_64 website

Summary

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