How To Install librdmacm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install librdmacm.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. librdmacm.i686 is Userspace RDMA Connection Manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librdmacm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `librdmacm.i686`

librdmacm provides a userspace RDMA Communication Management API.

We can use yum to install librdmacm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install librdmacm.i686.

Install librdmacm.i686 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 librdmacm.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librdmacm.i686

How To Uninstall librdmacm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the librdmacm.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove librdmacm.i686

librdmacm.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/librdmacm.so.1
/usr/lib/librdmacm.so.1.3.35.0
/usr/lib/rsocket
/usr/lib/rsocket/librspreload.so
/usr/lib/rsocket/librspreload.so.1
/usr/lib/rsocket/librspreload.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core/librdmacm.md
/usr/share/man/man7/rsocket.7.gz

References

librdmacm.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librdmacm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.