How To Install libvmem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvmem.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvmem.x86_64 is Volatile Memory allocation library

Introduction

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

What is `libvmem.x86_64`

The libvmem library turns a pool of persistent memory into a volatile memory pool, similar to the system heap but kept separate and with its own malloc-style API.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libvmem.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvmem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libvmem.x86_64

libvmem.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libvmem.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvmem.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvmem-1.3
/usr/share/doc/libvmem-1.3/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libvmem-1.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvmem-1.3/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libvmem-1.3
/usr/share/licenses/libvmem-1.3/LICENSE

References

libvmem.x86_64 website

Summary

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