How To Install libsolv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsolv-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsolv-tools.x86_64 is Package dependency solver tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsolv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libsolv-tools.x86_64`

Package dependency solver tools.

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

Install libsolv-tools.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 libsolv-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsolv-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsolv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libsolv-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libsolv-tools.x86_64

libsolv-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/comps2solv
/usr/bin/deltainfoxml2solv
/usr/bin/dumpsolv
/usr/bin/installcheck
/usr/bin/mergesolv
/usr/bin/repo2solv
/usr/bin/repomdxml2solv
/usr/bin/rpmdb2solv
/usr/bin/rpmmd2solv
/usr/bin/rpms2solv
/usr/bin/testsolv
/usr/bin/updateinfoxml2solv
/usr/share/man/man1/comps2solv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/deltainfoxml2solv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dumpsolv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/installcheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mergesolv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/repomdxml2solv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmdb2solv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmmd2solv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpms2solv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/testsolv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/updateinfoxml2solv.1.gz

References

libsolv-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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