How To Install libusbx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libusbx.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libusbx.x86_64 is Library for accessing USB devices

Introduction

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

What is `libusbx.x86_64`

This package provides a way for applications to access USB devices. Libusbx is a fork of the original libusb, which is a fully API and ABI compatible drop in for the libusb-1.0.9 release. The libusbx fork was started by most of the libusb-1.0 developers, after the original libusb project did not produce a new release for over 18 months. Note that this library is not compatible with the original libusb-0.1 series, if you need libusb-0.1 compatibility install the libusb package.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libusbx.x86_64

How To Uninstall libusbx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libusbx.x86_64

libusbx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libusb-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libusb-1.0.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libusbx-1.0.21
/usr/share/doc/libusbx-1.0.21/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libusbx-1.0.21/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libusbx-1.0.21/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libusbx-1.0.21/README

References

libusbx.x86_64 website

Summary

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