How To Install symlinks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. symlinks.x86_64 is A utility which maintains a system’s symbolic links

Introduction

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

What is symlinks.x86_64

The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links. Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks which point to nonexistent files. Symlinks can also automatically convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks. Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining symlinks on your system.

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

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

sudo yum -y install symlinks.x86_64

How To Uninstall symlinks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove symlinks.x86_64

symlinks.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/symlinks
/usr/share/doc/symlinks-1.4
/usr/share/doc/symlinks-1.4/symlinks-LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/symlinks.8.gz

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Summary

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