How To Install libpsm2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpsm2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpsm2.x86_64 is Intel PSM Libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpsm2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libpsm2.x86_64`

The PSM Messaging API, or PSM API, is Intel’s low-level user-level communications interface for the Intel(R) OPA family of products. PSM users are enabled with mechanisms necessary to implement higher level communications interfaces in parallel environments.

We can use yum to install libpsm2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpsm2.x86_64.

Install libpsm2.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 libpsm2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpsm2.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpsm2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libpsm2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libpsm2.x86_64

libpsm2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-psm.rules
/usr/lib64/libpsm2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libpsm2.so.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libpsm2-10.3.8
/usr/share/doc/libpsm2-10.3.8/README
/usr/share/licenses/libpsm2-10.3.8
/usr/share/licenses/libpsm2-10.3.8/COPYING

References

libpsm2.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpsm2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.