How To Install netcf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install netcf.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. netcf.x86_64 is Cross-platform network configuration library

Introduction

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

What is netcf.x86_64

Netcf is a library used to modify the network configuration of a system. Network configurations are expressed in a platform-independent XML format, which netcf translates into changes to the system’s ’native’ network configuration files.

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

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

sudo yum -y install netcf.x86_64

How To Uninstall netcf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove netcf.x86_64

netcf.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ncftool
/usr/share/man/man1/ncftool.1.gz

References

Summary

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