How To Install pptp-setup.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pptp-setup.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pptp-setup.x86_64 is PPTP Tunnel Configuration Script

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pptp-setup.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pptp-setup.x86_64`

This package provides a simple configuration script for setting up PPTP tunnels.

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

Install pptp-setup.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 pptp-setup.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pptp-setup.x86_64

How To Uninstall pptp-setup.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pptp-setup.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pptp-setup.x86_64

pptp-setup.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/pptpsetup
/usr/share/man/man8/pptpsetup.8.gz

References

pptp-setup.x86_64 website

Summary

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