How To Install libsecret.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsecret.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsecret.x86_64 is Library for storing and retrieving passwords and other secrets

Introduction

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

What is libsecret.x86_64

libsecret is a library for storing and retrieving passwords and other secrets. It communicates with the “Secret Service” using DBus. gnome-keyring and KSecretService are both implementations of a Secret Service.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libsecret.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsecret.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libsecret.x86_64

libsecret.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/secret-tool
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Secret-1.typelib
/usr/lib64/libsecret-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsecret-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libsecret-0.18.5
/usr/share/doc/libsecret-0.18.5/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libsecret-0.18.5/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libsecret-0.18.5/README
/usr/share/licenses/libsecret-0.18.5
/usr/share/licenses/libsecret-0.18.5/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/secret-tool.1.gz

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Summary

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