How To Install sbd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sbd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sbd.x86_64 is Storage-based death

Introduction

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

What is `sbd.x86_64`

This package contains the storage-based death functionality.

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

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

sudo yum -y install sbd.x86_64

How To Uninstall sbd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove sbd.x86_64

sbd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/sbd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sbd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sbd_remote.service
/usr/sbin/sbd
/usr/share/doc/sbd-1.4.0
/usr/share/doc/sbd-1.4.0/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/sbd.8.gz

References

sbd.x86_64 website

Summary

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