How To Install libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64 is Timeout policy tuning for Netfilter/conntrack

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64

This infrastructure allows you to define fine-grain timeout policies per flow. Basically, from user-space, you can create timeout policy objects via nfct_timeout_alloc(), set the policy attributes, via nfct_timeout_*_attr_set(), and then build the ctnetlink message to communicate this new timeout policy to the kernel.

We can use yum to install libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.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_cttimeout-devel.x86_64.

Install libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.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_cttimeout-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64

libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/libnetfilter_cttimeout
/usr/include/libnetfilter_cttimeout/libnetfilter_cttimeout.h
/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_cttimeout.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libnetfilter_cttimeout.pc

References

Summary

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