How To Install prelink.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelink.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. prelink.x86_64 is An ELF prelinking utility

Introduction

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

What is `prelink.x86_64`

The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries and executables, so that far fewer relocations need to be resolved at runtime and thus programs come up faster.

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

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

sudo yum -y install prelink.x86_64

How To Uninstall prelink.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove prelink.x86_64

prelink.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.daily/prelink
/etc/prelink.conf
/etc/prelink.conf.d
/etc/rpm/macros.prelink
/etc/sysconfig/prelink
/usr/bin/execstack
/usr/sbin/prelink
/usr/share/doc/prelink-0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/prelink-0.5.0/prelink.pdf
/usr/share/man/man5/prelink.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/execstack.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/prelink.8.gz
/var/lib/prelink
/var/lib/prelink/force
/var/lib/prelink/full
/var/lib/prelink/quick
/var/log/prelink
/var/log/prelink/prelink.log

References

prelink.x86_64 website

Summary

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