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

In this tutorial we learn how to install snapper-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. snapper-libs.x86_64 is Library for filesystem snapshot management

Introduction

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

What is `snapper-libs.x86_64`

This package contains the snapper shared library for filesystem snapshot management.

We can use yum to install snapper-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 snapper-libs.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install snapper-libs.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove snapper-libs.x86_64

snapper-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/snapper
/etc/snapper/config-templates
/etc/snapper/config-templates/default
/etc/snapper/configs
/etc/snapper/filters
/etc/snapper/filters/base.txt
/etc/snapper/filters/lvm.txt
/etc/snapper/filters/x11.txt
/etc/sysconfig/snapper
/usr/lib64/libsnapper.so.3
/usr/lib64/libsnapper.so.3.1.0
/usr/share/doc/snapper-libs-0.2.8
/usr/share/doc/snapper-libs-0.2.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/snapper-libs-0.2.8/COPYING

References

snapper-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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