How To Install open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 is Test utilities for Open Virtual Machine Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `open-vm-tools-test.x86_64`

This package contains only the test utilities for open-vm-tools that are useful for verifying the functioning of open-vm-tools in VMware virtual machines.

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

Install open-vm-tools-test.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 open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install open-vm-tools-test.x86_64

How To Uninstall open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove open-vm-tools-test.x86_64

open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/vmware-vgauth-smoketest

References

open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-test.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.