How To Install libnl3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnl3.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libnl3.x86_64 is Convenience library for kernel netlink sockets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnl3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libnl3.x86_64`

This package contains a convenience library to simplify using the Linux kernel’s netlink sockets interface for network manipulation

We can use yum to install libnl3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnl3.x86_64.

Install libnl3.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 libnl3.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libnl3.x86_64

How To Uninstall libnl3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libnl3.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libnl3.x86_64

libnl3.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libnl
/etc/libnl/classid
/etc/libnl/pktloc
/usr/lib64/libnl-3.so.200
/usr/lib64/libnl-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib64/libnl-genl-3.so.200
/usr/lib64/libnl-genl-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib64/libnl-idiag-3.so.200
/usr/lib64/libnl-idiag-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib64/libnl-nf-3.so.200
/usr/lib64/libnl-nf-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib64/libnl-route-3.so.200
/usr/lib64/libnl-route-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib64/libnl-xfrm-3.so.200
/usr/lib64/libnl-xfrm-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/share/doc/libnl3-3.2.28
/usr/share/doc/libnl3-3.2.28/COPYING

References

libnl3.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnl3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.