How To Install rdma-core.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdma-core.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. rdma-core.i686 is RDMA core userspace libraries and daemons

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdma-core.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is rdma-core.i686

RDMA core userspace infrastructure and documentation, including initialization scripts, kernel driver-specific modprobe override configs, IPoIB network scripts, dracut rules, and the rdma-ndd utility.

We can use yum to install rdma-core.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rdma-core.i686.

Install rdma-core.i686 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 rdma-core.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rdma-core.i686

How To Uninstall rdma-core.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rdma-core.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rdma-core.i686

rdma-core.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/modprobe.d
/etc/modprobe.d/mlx4.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/truescale.conf
/etc/rdma
/etc/rdma/mlx4.conf
/etc/rdma/modules/infiniband.conf
/etc/rdma/modules/iwarp.conf
/etc/rdma/modules/opa.conf
/etc/rdma/modules/rdma.conf
/etc/rdma/modules/roce.conf
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-ipoib.rules
/usr/lib/dracut
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/05rdma
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/05rdma/module-setup.sh
/usr/lib/modprobe.d
/usr/lib/modprobe.d/libmlx4.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rdma-hw.target
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rdma-ndd.service
/usr/lib/udev/rdma_rename
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-rdma-ndd.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-rdma-persistent-naming.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/75-rdma-description.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-rdma-hw-modules.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-rdma-ulp-modules.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-rdma-umad.rules
/usr/libexec/mlx4-setup.sh
/usr/libexec/truescale-serdes.cmds
/usr/sbin/rdma-ndd
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core/README.md
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core/rxe.md
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core/tag_matching.md
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core/udev.md
/usr/share/licenses/rdma-core-35.0
/usr/share/licenses/rdma-core-35.0/COPYING.BSD_FB
/usr/share/licenses/rdma-core-35.0/COPYING.BSD_MIT
/usr/share/licenses/rdma-core-35.0/COPYING.GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/rdma-core-35.0/COPYING.md
/usr/share/man/man7/rxe.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rdma-ndd.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdma-core.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.