How To Install rhdb-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rhdb-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rhdb-utils.x86_64 is Miscellaneous utilities for PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rhdb-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `rhdb-utils.x86_64`

This package contains miscellaneous, non-graphical tools originally developed for PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition.

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

Install rhdb-utils.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 rhdb-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rhdb-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall rhdb-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rhdb-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rhdb-utils.x86_64

rhdb-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pg_filedump
/usr/share/doc/rhdb-utils-9.2.0
/usr/share/doc/rhdb-utils-9.2.0/README.pg_filedump
/usr/share/man/man1/pg_filedump.1.gz

References

rhdb-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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