How To Install lksctp-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install lksctp-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. lksctp-tools.x86_64 is User-space access to Linux Kernel SCTP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lksctp-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is lksctp-tools.x86_64

This is the lksctp-tools package for Linux Kernel SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) Reference Implementation. This package is intended to supplement the Linux Kernel SCTP Reference Implementation now available in the Linux kernel source tree in versions 2.5.36 and following. For more information on LKSCTP see the package documentation README file, section titled “LKSCTP - Linux Kernel SCTP.” This package contains the base run-time library and command-line tools.

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

Install lksctp-tools.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 lksctp-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lksctp-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall lksctp-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the lksctp-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove lksctp-tools.x86_64

lksctp-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/checksctp
/usr/bin/sctp_darn
/usr/bin/sctp_status
/usr/bin/sctp_test
/usr/bin/withsctp
/usr/lib64/libsctp.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsctp.so.1.0.17
/usr/lib64/lksctp-tools
/usr/lib64/lksctp-tools/libwithsctp.so.1
/usr/lib64/lksctp-tools/libwithsctp.so.1.0.17
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/COPYING.lib
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/README
/usr/share/man/man7/sctp.7.gz

References

Summary

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