How To Install libnftnl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnftnl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libnftnl.x86_64 is Library for low-level interaction with nftables Netlink’s API over

Introduction

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

What is `libnftnl.x86_64`

A library for low-level interaction with nftables Netlink’s API over libmnl.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libnftnl.x86_64

How To Uninstall libnftnl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libnftnl.x86_64

libnftnl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libnftnl.so.11
/usr/lib64/libnftnl.so.11.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libnftnl-1.1.5
/usr/share/doc/libnftnl-1.1.5/COPYING

References

libnftnl.x86_64 website

Summary

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