How To Install librados2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install librados2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. librados2.x86_64 is RADOS distributed object store client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librados2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is librados2.x86_64

RADOS is a reliable, autonomic distributed object storage cluster developed as part of the Ceph distributed storage system. This is a shared library allowing applications to access the distributed object store using a simple file-like interface.

We can use yum to install librados2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install librados2.x86_64.

Install librados2.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 librados2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librados2.x86_64

How To Uninstall librados2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the librados2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove librados2.x86_64

librados2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/librados.so.2
/usr/lib64/librados.so.2.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librados2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.