How To Install libpipeline.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpipeline.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpipeline.x86_64 is A pipeline manipulation library

Introduction

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

What is libpipeline.x86_64

libpipeline is a C library for setting up and running pipelines of processes, without needing to involve shell command-line parsing which is often error-prone and insecure. This alleviates programmers of the need to laboriously construct pipelines using lower-level primitives such as fork(2) and execve(2).

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

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

sudo yum -y install libpipeline.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpipeline.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libpipeline.x86_64

libpipeline.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpipeline.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpipeline.so.1.2.3
/usr/share/doc/libpipeline-1.2.3
/usr/share/doc/libpipeline-1.2.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libpipeline-1.2.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libpipeline-1.2.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libpipeline-1.2.3/README

References

Summary

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