How To Install libzstd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libzstd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libzstd.x86_64 is Zstd shared library

Introduction

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

What is `libzstd.x86_64`

Zstandard compression shared library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libzstd.x86_64

How To Uninstall libzstd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libzstd.x86_64

libzstd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libzstd.so.1
/usr/lib64/libzstd.so.1.5.2
/usr/share/licenses/libzstd-1.5.2
/usr/share/licenses/libzstd-1.5.2/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libzstd-1.5.2/LICENSE

References

libzstd.x86_64 website

Summary

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