How To Install sntp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sntp.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sntp.x86_64 is Standard Simple Network Time Protocol program

Introduction

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

What is `sntp.x86_64`

sntp can be used as a SNTP client to query a NTP or SNTP server and either display the time or set the local system’s time (given suitable privilege). It can be run as an interactive command or in a cron job.

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

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

sudo yum -y install sntp.x86_64

How To Uninstall sntp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove sntp.x86_64

sntp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/sntp
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sntp.service
/usr/sbin/sntp
/usr/share/doc/sntp-4.2.8p15
/usr/share/doc/sntp-4.2.8p15/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/man/man8/sntp.8.gz
/var/lib/sntp
/var/lib/sntp/kod

References

sntp.x86_64 website

Summary

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