How To Install librpmem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install librpmem.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. librpmem.x86_64 is Remote Access to Persistent Memory library

Introduction

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

What is `librpmem.x86_64`

The librpmem library provides low-level support for remote access to persistent memory utilizing RDMA-capable NICs. It can be used to replicate peristent memory regions over RDMA protocol.

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

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

sudo yum -y install librpmem.x86_64

How To Uninstall librpmem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove librpmem.x86_64

librpmem.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/librpmem.so.1
/usr/lib64/librpmem.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/librpmem-1.3
/usr/share/doc/librpmem-1.3/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/librpmem-1.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/librpmem-1.3/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/librpmem-1.3
/usr/share/licenses/librpmem-1.3/LICENSE

References

librpmem.x86_64 website

Summary

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