How To Install rmt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rmt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rmt.x86_64 is Provides certain programs with access to remote tape devices

Introduction

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

What is `rmt.x86_64`

The rmt utility provides remote access to tape devices for programs like dump (a filesystem backup program), restore (a program for restoring files from a backup), and tar (an archiving program).

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

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

sudo yum -y install rmt.x86_64

How To Uninstall rmt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove rmt.x86_64

rmt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/default/rmt
/etc/rmt
/usr/sbin/rmt
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/AN-1.2
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/AN-1.3
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/AN-1.3.1
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/AN-1.4
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/AN-1.5
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/AN-1.5.1
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/AN-1.5.2
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/CDDL.Schily.txt
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/README
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/README.linux
/usr/share/doc/rmt-1.5.2/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/rmt.1.gz

References

rmt.x86_64 website

Summary

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