How To Install system-lsb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-lsb.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. system-lsb.x86_64 is Implementation of Linux Standard Base specification

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-lsb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `system-lsb.x86_64`

The Linux Standard Base (LSB) is an attempt to develop a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions. It is designed to be binary-compatible and produce a stable application binary interface (ABI) for independent software vendors. The lsb package provides utilities, libraries etc. needed for LSB Compliant Applications. It also contains requirements that will ensure that all components required by the LSB are installed on the system.

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

Install system-lsb.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 system-lsb.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install system-lsb.x86_64

How To Uninstall system-lsb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the system-lsb.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove system-lsb.x86_64

system-lsb.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/lsb
/usr/share/lsb/4.1
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/core
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/core/core-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/core/core-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/core/security-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/core/security-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/cxx
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/cxx/cpp-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/cxx/cpp-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/desktop-misc-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/desktop-misc-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/graphics-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/graphics-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/graphics-ext-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/graphics-ext-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/multimedia-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/multimedia-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/toolkit-gtk-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/toolkit-gtk-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/toolkit-qt-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/toolkit-qt-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/toolkit-qt3-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/toolkit-qt3-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/xml-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/desktop/xml-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/languages
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/languages/perl-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/languages/perl-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/languages/python-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/languages/python-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/printing
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/printing/printing-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/printing/printing-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/trialuse
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/trialuse/multimedia-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/trialuse/multimedia-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/trialuse/security-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/modules/trialuse/security-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/core-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/core-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/cpp-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/cpp-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/desktop-misc-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/desktop-misc-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/graphics-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/graphics-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/graphics-ext-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/graphics-ext-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/multimedia-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/multimedia-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/perl-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/perl-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/printing-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/printing-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/python-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/python-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/security-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/security-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/toolkit-gtk-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/toolkit-gtk-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/toolkit-qt-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/toolkit-qt-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/toolkit-qt3-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/toolkit-qt3-4.1-noarch
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/xml-4.1-amd64
/usr/share/lsb/4.1/submodules/xml-4.1-noarch

References

system-lsb.x86_64 website

Summary

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