How To Install libproxy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libproxy.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libproxy.x86_64 is A library handling all the details of proxy configuration

Introduction

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

What is `libproxy.x86_64`

libproxy offers the following features * extremely small core footprint (< 35K) * no external dependencies within libproxy core (libproxy plugins may have dependencies) * only 3 functions in the stable external API * dynamic adjustment to changing network topology * a standard way of dealing with proxy settings across all scenarios * a sublime sense of joy and accomplishment

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

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

sudo yum -y install libproxy.x86_64

How To Uninstall libproxy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libproxy.x86_64

libproxy.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libproxy
/usr/lib64/libproxy.so.1
/usr/lib64/libproxy.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libproxy/0.4.11
/usr/lib64/libproxy/0.4.11/modules
/usr/share/doc/libproxy-0.4.11
/usr/share/doc/libproxy-0.4.11/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libproxy-0.4.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libproxy-0.4.11/README

References

libproxy.x86_64 website

Summary

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