How To Install rdate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdate.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rdate.x86_64 is Tool for getting the date/time from a remote machine

Introduction

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

What is `rdate.x86_64`

The rdate utility retrieves the date and time from another machine on your network, using the protocol described in RFC 868. If you run rdate as root, it will set your machine’s local time to the time of the machine that you queried.

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

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

sudo yum -y install rdate.x86_64

How To Uninstall rdate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove rdate.x86_64

rdate.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/rdate
/usr/share/doc/rdate-1.4
/usr/share/doc/rdate-1.4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rdate.1.gz

References

rdate.x86_64 website

Summary

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