How To Install sgpio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sgpio.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sgpio.x86_64 is SGPIO captive backplane tool

Introduction

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

What is `sgpio.x86_64`

Intel SGPIO enclosure management utility

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

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

sudo yum -y install sgpio.x86_64

How To Uninstall sgpio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove sgpio.x86_64

sgpio.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/sgpio
/usr/share/doc/sgpio-1.2.0.10
/usr/share/doc/sgpio-1.2.0.10/README
/usr/share/man/man1/sgpio.1.gz

References

sgpio.x86_64 website

Summary

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