How To Install oddjob.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install oddjob.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. oddjob.x86_64 is A D-Bus service which runs odd jobs on behalf of client

Introduction

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

What is `oddjob.x86_64`

oddjob is a D-Bus service which performs particular tasks for clients which connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus.

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

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

sudo yum -y install oddjob.x86_64

How To Uninstall oddjob.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove oddjob.x86_64

oddjob.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob.conf
/etc/oddjob
/etc/oddjobd.conf
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-introspection.conf
/usr/bin/oddjob_request
/usr/lib/systemd/system/oddjobd.service
/usr/libexec/oddjob
/usr/libexec/oddjob/sanity.sh
/usr/sbin/oddjobd
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/QUICKSTART
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/oddjob.html
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/oddjobconfig.dtd
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/reload
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/etc
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/etc/dbus-1
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/etc/dbus-1/system.d
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob-sample.conf
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/etc/oddjobd.conf.d
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-sample.conf
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/usr
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/usr/lib64
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/usr/lib64/oddjob
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-0.31.5/sample/usr/lib64/oddjob/oddjob-sample.sh
/usr/share/man/man1/oddjob_request.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjob.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjobd-introspection.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjobd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oddjobd.8.gz

References

oddjob.x86_64 website

Summary

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