How To Install openssl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openssl.x86_64 is Utilities from the general purpose cryptography library with TLS

Introduction

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

What is `openssl.x86_64`

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

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

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

sudo yum -y install openssl.x86_64

How To Uninstall openssl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove openssl.x86_64

openssl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pki/CA
/etc/pki/CA/certs
/etc/pki/CA/crl
/etc/pki/CA/newcerts
/etc/pki/CA/private
/etc/pki/tls/certs/Makefile
/etc/pki/tls/certs/make-dummy-cert
/etc/pki/tls/certs/renew-dummy-cert
/etc/pki/tls/misc/CA
/etc/pki/tls/misc/c_hash
/etc/pki/tls/misc/c_info
/etc/pki/tls/misc/c_issuer
/etc/pki/tls/misc/c_name
/usr/bin/openssl
/usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2k
/usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2k/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2k/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2k/README
/usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2k/README.FIPS
/usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2k/README.legacy-settings
/usr/share/licenses/openssl-1.0.2k
/usr/share/licenses/openssl-1.0.2k/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/asn1parse.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ca.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ciphers.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cms.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/crl.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/crl2pkcs7.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dgst.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dhparam.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dsa.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dsaparam.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dss1.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ec.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ecparam.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/enc.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/errstr.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gendsa.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genpkey.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genrsa.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/md2.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/md4.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/md5.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mdc2.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nseq.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ocsp.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/openssl.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkcs12.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkcs7.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkcs8.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkey.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkeyparam.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkeyutl.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/req.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ripemd160.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rsa.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rsautl.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/s_client.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/s_server.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/s_time.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sess_id.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sha.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sha1.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sha224.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sha256.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sha384.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sha512.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/smime.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/speed.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spkac.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sslpasswd.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sslrand.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ts.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/verify.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/version.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/x509.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/config.5ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/openssl.cnf.5ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/x509v3_config.5ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/des_modes.7ssl.gz

References

openssl.x86_64 website

Summary

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