How To Install libuuid.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuuid.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libuuid.x86_64 is Universally unique ID library

Introduction

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

What is `libuuid.x86_64`

This is the universally unique ID library, part of util-linux. The libuuid library generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id’s (UUID’s). A UUID is an identifier that is unique across both space and time, with respect to the space of all UUIDs. A UUID can be used for multiple purposes, from tagging objects with an extremely short lifetime, to reliably identifying very persistent objects across a network. See also the “uuid” package, which is a separate implementation.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libuuid.x86_64

How To Uninstall libuuid.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libuuid.x86_64

libuuid.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libuuid.so.1
/usr/lib64/libuuid.so.1.3.0
/usr/share/licenses/libuuid-2.30.2
/usr/share/licenses/libuuid-2.30.2/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libuuid-2.30.2/COPYING.BSD-3

References

libuuid.x86_64 website

Summary

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