How To Install libusb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libusb.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libusb.x86_64 is A library which allows userspace access to USB devices

Introduction

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

What is libusb.x86_64

This package provides a way for applications to access USB devices. Legacy libusb-0.1 is no longer supported by upstream, therefore content of this package was replaced by libusb-compat. It provides compatibility layer allowing applications written for libusb-0.1 to work with libusb-1.0.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libusb.x86_64

How To Uninstall libusb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libusb.x86_64

libusb.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/lib64/libusb-0.1.so.4
/lib64/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4

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Summary

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