How To Install sysfsutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sysfsutils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sysfsutils.x86_64 is Utilities for interfacing with sysfs

Introduction

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

What is `sysfsutils.x86_64`

This package’s purpose is to provide a set of utilities for interfacing with sysfs.

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

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

sudo yum -y install sysfsutils.x86_64

How To Uninstall sysfsutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove sysfsutils.x86_64

sysfsutils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/get_module
/usr/bin/systool
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0/GPL
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0/README
/usr/share/doc/sysfsutils-2.1.0/libsysfs.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/systool.1.gz

References

sysfsutils.x86_64 website

Summary

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