How To Install luksmeta.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install luksmeta.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. luksmeta.x86_64 is Utility for storing small metadata in the LUKSv1 header

Introduction

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

What is `luksmeta.x86_64`

LUKSMeta is a command line utility for storing small portions of metadata in the LUKSv1 header for use before unlocking the volume.

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

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

sudo yum -y install luksmeta.x86_64

How To Uninstall luksmeta.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove luksmeta.x86_64

luksmeta.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/luksmeta
/usr/share/man/man8/luksmeta.8.gz

References

luksmeta.x86_64 website

Summary

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