How To Install libss.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libss.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libss.x86_64 is Command line interface parsing library

Introduction

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

What is `libss.x86_64`

This is libss, a command line interface parsing library, part of e2fsprogs. This package includes a tool that parses a command table to generate a simple command-line interface parser, the include files needed to compile and use it. It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library.

We can use yum to install libss.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libss.x86_64

How To Uninstall libss.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libss.x86_64

libss.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libss.so.2
/usr/lib64/libss.so.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libss-1.42.9
/usr/share/doc/libss-1.42.9/COPYING

References

libss.x86_64 website

Summary

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