How To Install libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64 is User-space infrastructure for connection tracking helpers

Introduction

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

What is `libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64`

This library provides the infrastructure for the user-space helper infrastructure available since the Linux kernel 3.6.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64

How To Uninstall libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64

libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_cthelper.so.0
/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_cthelper.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cthelper-1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cthelper-1.0.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cthelper-1.0.0/README

References

libnetfilter_cthelper.x86_64 website

Summary

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