How To Install openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 is SCAP probes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `openscap-extra-probes.x86_64`

The openscap-extra-probes package contains additional probes that are not commonly used and require additional dependencies.

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

Install openscap-extra-probes.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 openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openscap-extra-probes.x86_64

How To Uninstall openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove openscap-extra-probes.x86_64

openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/libexec/openscap/probe_gconf
/usr/libexec/openscap/probe_ldap57

References

openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-extra-probes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.