How To Install rusers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rusers.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rusers.x86_64 is Displays the users logged into machines on the local network

Introduction

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

What is `rusers.x86_64`

The rusers program allows users to find out who is logged into various machines on the local network. The rusers command produces output similar to who, but for the specified list of hosts or for all machines on the local network. Install rusers if you need to keep track of who is logged into your local network.

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

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

sudo yum -y install rusers.x86_64

How To Uninstall rusers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove rusers.x86_64

rusers.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/rup
/usr/bin/rusers
/usr/share/doc/rusers-0.17
/usr/share/doc/rusers-0.17/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rusers-0.17/README
/usr/share/man/man1/rup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rusers.1.gz

References

rusers.x86_64 website

Summary

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