How To Install supermin5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install supermin5.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. supermin5.x86_64 is Supermin version 5

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install supermin5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `supermin5.x86_64`

Supermin is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are tiny appliances (similar to virtual machines), usually around 100KB in size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second when you need to boot one of them. This package contains supermin version 5.1.19. The binary is called ‘supermin5’, so that we do not break compatibility with RHEL 7 GA.

We can use yum to install supermin5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install supermin5.x86_64.

Install supermin5.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 supermin5.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install supermin5.x86_64

How To Uninstall supermin5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the supermin5.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove supermin5.x86_64

supermin5.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/supermin5
/usr/share/doc/supermin5-5.1.19
/usr/share/doc/supermin5-5.1.19/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/supermin5-5.1.19/README
/usr/share/doc/supermin5-5.1.19/build-basic-vm.sh
/usr/share/man/man1/supermin5.1.gz

References

supermin5.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install supermin5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.