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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmi-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsmi-devel.x86_64 is Development environment for libsmi library

Introduction

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

What is libsmi-devel.x86_64

Libsmi is a C library to access MIB module information through a well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating and parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB modules. This package contains development files needed to develop libsmi-based applications.

We can use yum to install libsmi-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 libsmi-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libsmi-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libsmi-devel.x86_64

libsmi-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/smi.h
/usr/lib64/libsmi.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libsmi.pc
/usr/share/aclocal/libsmi.m4
/usr/share/man/man3/libsmi.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_attribute.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_class.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_config.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_event.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_identity.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_macro.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_module.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_node.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_render.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_type.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/smi_util.3.gz

References

Summary

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