How To Install librbd1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install librbd1.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. librbd1.x86_64 is RADOS block device client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librbd1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is librbd1.x86_64

RBD is a block device striped across multiple distributed objects in RADOS, a reliable, autonomic distributed object storage cluster developed as part of the Ceph distributed storage system. This is a shared library allowing applications to manage these block devices.

We can use yum to install librbd1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install librbd1.x86_64.

Install librbd1.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 librbd1.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librbd1.x86_64

How To Uninstall librbd1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the librbd1.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove librbd1.x86_64

librbd1.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-rbd.rules
/usr/lib64/librbd.so.1
/usr/lib64/librbd.so.1.0.0

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librbd1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.