How To Install qatengine.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qatengine.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. qatengine.x86_64 is Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) OpenSSL Engine

Introduction

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

What is `qatengine.x86_64`

This package provides the Intel QuickAssist Technology OpenSSL Engine (an OpenSSL Plug-In Engine) which provides cryptographic acceleration for both hardware and optimized software using Intel QuickAssist Technology enabled Intel platforms.

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

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

sudo yum -y install qatengine.x86_64

How To Uninstall qatengine.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove qatengine.x86_64

qatengine.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/engines-1.1/qatengine.so
/usr/share/doc/qatengine-0.6.5
/usr/share/doc/qatengine-0.6.5/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine-0.6.5
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine-0.6.5/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine-0.6.5/LICENSE.OPENSSL

References

qatengine.x86_64 website

Summary

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