How To Install rpmemd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpmemd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rpmemd.x86_64 is Target node process executed by librpmem

Introduction

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

What is `rpmemd.x86_64`

The rpmemd process is executed on a target node by librpmem library and facilitates access to persistent memory over RDMA.

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

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

sudo yum -y install rpmemd.x86_64

How To Uninstall rpmemd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove rpmemd.x86_64

rpmemd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/rpmemd
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmemd.1.gz

References

rpmemd.x86_64 website

Summary

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