How To Install libss-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libss-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libss-devel.x86_64
This is the command line interface parsing (libss) development library and headers, part of e2fsprogs. It contains the mk_cmds command, which parses a command table to generate a simple command-line interface parser. It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library.
We can use yum to install libss-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 libss-devel.x86_64.
Install libss-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 libss-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libss-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall libss-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libss-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libss-devel.x86_64
libss-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/mk_cmds
/usr/include/ss
/usr/include/ss/ss.h
/usr/include/ss/ss_err.h
/usr/lib64/libss.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ss.pc
/usr/share/man/man1/mk_cmds.1.gz
/usr/share/ss
/usr/share/ss/ct_c.awk
/usr/share/ss/ct_c.sed
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libss-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.