How To Install rng-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rng-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rng-tools.x86_64 is Random number generator related utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rng-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `rng-tools.x86_64`

Hardware random number generation tools.

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

Install rng-tools.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 rng-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rng-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall rng-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rng-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rng-tools.x86_64

rng-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/sbin/rngd
/usr/bin/rngtest
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rngd-wake-threshold.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rngd.service
/usr/share/doc/rng-tools-6.8
/usr/share/doc/rng-tools-6.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rng-tools-6.8/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rng-tools-6.8/README
/usr/share/licenses/rng-tools-6.8
/usr/share/licenses/rng-tools-6.8/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rngtest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rngd.8.gz

References

rng-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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