How To Install libqb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libqb.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libqb.x86_64 is An IPC library for high performance servers

Introduction

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

What is `libqb.x86_64`

libqb provides high-performance, reusable features for client-server architecture, such as logging, tracing, inter-process communication (IPC), and polling.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libqb.x86_64

How To Uninstall libqb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libqb.x86_64

libqb.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libqb.so.0
/usr/lib64/libqb.so.0.19.2
/usr/sbin/qb-blackbox
/usr/share/licenses/libqb-1.0.5
/usr/share/licenses/libqb-1.0.5/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/qb-blackbox.8.gz

References

libqb.x86_64 website

Summary

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