How To Install numactl-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install numactl-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. numactl-libs.x86_64 is libnuma libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install numactl-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `numactl-libs.x86_64`

numactl-libs provides libnuma, a library to do allocations with NUMA policy in applications.

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

Install numactl-libs.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 numactl-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install numactl-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall numactl-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the numactl-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove numactl-libs.x86_64

numactl-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libnuma.so.1

References

numactl-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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