How To Install libwbclient.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwbclient.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libwbclient.x86_64 is The winbind client library

Introduction

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

What is `libwbclient.x86_64`

The libwbclient package contains the winbind client library from the Samba suite.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libwbclient.x86_64

How To Uninstall libwbclient.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libwbclient.x86_64

libwbclient.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/samba/libwinbind-client-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/wbclient/libwbclient.so.0
/usr/lib64/samba/wbclient/libwbclient.so.0.15

References

libwbclient.x86_64 website

Summary

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