How To Install nss-sysinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nss-sysinit.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. nss-sysinit.x86_64 is System NSS Initialization

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nss-sysinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `nss-sysinit.x86_64`

Default Operating System module that manages applications loading NSS globally on the system. This module loads the system defined PKCS #11 modules for NSS and chains with other NSS modules to load any system or user configured modules.

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

Install nss-sysinit.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 nss-sysinit.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nss-sysinit.x86_64

How To Uninstall nss-sysinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the nss-sysinit.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove nss-sysinit.x86_64

nss-sysinit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/setup-nsssysinit
/usr/bin/setup-nsssysinit.sh
/usr/lib64/libnsssysinit.so
/usr/share/man/man1/setup-nsssysinit.1.gz

References

nss-sysinit.x86_64 website

Summary

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