How To Install ORBit2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ORBit2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ORBit2.x86_64 is A high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ORBit2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is ORBit2.x86_64

ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker). It allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables communication between program objects, regardless of the programming language they’re written in or the operating system they run on. You will need to install this package and ORBit-devel if you want to write programs that use CORBA technology.

We can use yum to install ORBit2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ORBit2.x86_64.

Install ORBit2.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 ORBit2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ORBit2.x86_64

How To Uninstall ORBit2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ORBit2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ORBit2.x86_64

ORBit2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libORBit-2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libORBit-2.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib64/libORBit-imodule-2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libORBit-imodule-2.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib64/orbit-2.0
/usr/lib64/orbit-2.0/Everything_module.so
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19/README
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19/TODO

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ORBit2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.