How To Install libtevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libtevent.x86_64
Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library. Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and the classic file descriptor events. Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions.
We can use yum to install libtevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libtevent.x86_64.
Install libtevent.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 libtevent.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libtevent.x86_64
How To Uninstall libtevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libtevent.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libtevent.x86_64
libtevent.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0.9.39
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.