How To Install libsmbclient-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbclient-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsmbclient-devel.x86_64 is Developer tools for the SMB client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbclient-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libsmbclient-devel.x86_64

The libsmbclient-devel package contains the header files and libraries needed to develop programs that link against the SMB client library in the Samba suite.

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

Install libsmbclient-devel.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 libsmbclient-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsmbclient-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsmbclient-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libsmbclient-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libsmbclient-devel.x86_64

libsmbclient-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/samba-4.0/libsmbclient.h
/usr/lib64/libsmbclient.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/smbclient.pc
/usr/share/man/man7/libsmbclient.7.gz

References

Summary

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