How To Install openssl11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl11.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openssl11.x86_64 is Utilities from the general purpose cryptography library with TLS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `openssl11.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 openssl11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openssl11.x86_64.

Install openssl11.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 openssl11.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openssl11.x86_64

How To Uninstall openssl11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the openssl11.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove openssl11.x86_64

openssl11.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/make-dummy-cert
/usr/bin/openssl11
/usr/bin/renew-dummy-cert
/usr/share/doc/openssl11-1.1.1g
/usr/share/doc/openssl11-1.1.1g/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/openssl11-1.1.1g/Makefile.certificate
/usr/share/doc/openssl11-1.1.1g/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/openssl11-1.1.1g/README
/usr/share/doc/openssl11-1.1.1g/README.FIPS
/usr/share/licenses/openssl11-1.1.1g
/usr/share/licenses/openssl11-1.1.1g/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/openssl11.1.gz

References

openssl11.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.