How To Install libpwquality-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwquality-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpwquality-devel.x86_64 is Support for development of applications using the libpwquality

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwquality-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libpwquality-devel.x86_64`

Files needed for development of applications using the libpwquality library. See the pwquality.h header file for the API.

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

Install libpwquality-devel.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 libpwquality-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpwquality-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpwquality-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libpwquality-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libpwquality-devel.x86_64

libpwquality-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/pwquality.h
/usr/lib64/libpwquality.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/pwquality.pc

References

libpwquality-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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