How To Install snapper.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `snapper.x86_64`

This package contains snapper, a tool for filesystem snapshot management.

We can use yum to install snapper.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install snapper.x86_64

How To Uninstall snapper.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove snapper.x86_64

snapper.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.daily/snapper
/etc/cron.hourly/snapper
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.opensuse.Snapper.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/snapper
/usr/bin/snapper
/usr/lib/snapper
/usr/lib/snapper/installation-helper
/usr/lib/snapper/systemd-helper
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-cleanup.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-cleanup.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-timeline.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-timeline.timer
/usr/sbin/snapperd
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.opensuse.Snapper.service
/usr/share/doc/snapper-0.2.8
/usr/share/doc/snapper-0.2.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/snapper-0.2.8/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/man/man5/snapper-configs.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/snapper.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/snapperd.8.gz

References

snapper.x86_64 website

Summary

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