How To Install libqmi-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libqmi-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libqmi-utils.x86_64 is Utilities to use the QMI protocol from the command line

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libqmi-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libqmi-utils.x86_64`

This package contains the utilities that make it easier to use QMI functionality from the command line.

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

Install libqmi-utils.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 libqmi-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libqmi-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall libqmi-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libqmi-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libqmi-utils.x86_64

libqmi-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/qmi-network
/usr/bin/qmicli
/usr/libexec/qmi-proxy
/usr/share/man/man1/qmi-firmware-update.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qmi-network.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qmicli.1.gz

References

libqmi-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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