How To Install libndp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libndp.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libndp.x86_64 is Library for Neighbor Discovery Protocol

Introduction

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

What is `libndp.x86_64`

This package contains a library which provides a wrapper for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol. It also provides a tool named ndptool for sending and receiving NDP messages.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libndp.x86_64

How To Uninstall libndp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libndp.x86_64

libndp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ndptool
/usr/lib64/libndp.so.0
/usr/lib64/libndp.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libndp-1.2
/usr/share/doc/libndp-1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/ndptool.8.gz

References

libndp.x86_64 website

Summary

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