How To Install libpmemblk-debug.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemblk-debug.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libpmemblk-debug.x86_64
The libpmemblk implements a pmem-resident array of blocks, all the same size, where a block is updated atomically with respect to power failure or program interruption (no torn blocks). This sub-package contains debug variant of the library, providing run-time assertions and trace points. The typical way to access the debug version is to set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib64/nvml_debug.
We can use yum to install libpmemblk-debug.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpmemblk-debug.x86_64.
Install libpmemblk-debug.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 libpmemblk-debug.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libpmemblk-debug.x86_64
How To Uninstall libpmemblk-debug.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libpmemblk-debug.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libpmemblk-debug.x86_64
libpmemblk-debug.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/nvml_debug
/usr/lib64/nvml_debug/libpmemblk.so
/usr/lib64/nvml_debug/libpmemblk.so.1
/usr/lib64/nvml_debug/libpmemblk.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpmemblk-debug-1.3
/usr/share/doc/libpmemblk-debug-1.3/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libpmemblk-debug-1.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libpmemblk-debug-1.3/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemblk-debug-1.3
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemblk-debug-1.3/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemblk-debug.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.