How To Install openobex.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openobex.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openobex.x86_64 is Library for using OBEX

Introduction

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

What is `openobex.x86_64`

OBEX (OBject EXchange) is a protocol usually used by various mobile devices to exchange all kind of objects like files, pictures, calendar entries (vCal) and business cards (vCard). This package contains the Open OBEX shared C library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install openobex.x86_64

How To Uninstall openobex.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove openobex.x86_64

openobex.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libopenobex.so.1
/usr/lib64/libopenobex.so.1.4.1
/usr/share/doc/openobex-1.5
/usr/share/doc/openobex-1.5/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/openobex-1.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/openobex-1.5/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/openobex-1.5/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/openobex-1.5/README

References

openobex.x86_64 website

Summary

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