How To Install samba-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. samba-libs.x86_64 is Samba libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `samba-libs.x86_64`

The samba-libs package contains the libraries needed by programs that link against the SMB, RPC and other protocols provided by the Samba suite.

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

Install samba-libs.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 samba-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install samba-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall samba-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the samba-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove samba-libs.x86_64

samba-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libdcerpc-samr.so.0
/usr/lib64/libdcerpc-samr.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/samba/libLIBWBCLIENT-OLD-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libMESSAGING-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libauth-unix-token-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libauth4-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libdcerpc-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libnon-posix-acls-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libsamba-net-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libsamba-python-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libshares-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libsmbpasswdparser-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libxattr-tdb-samba4.so

References

samba-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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