How To Install usermode.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. usermode.x86_64 is Tools for certain user account management tasks

Introduction

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

What is `usermode.x86_64`

The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges by ordinary users.

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

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

sudo yum -y install usermode.x86_64

How To Uninstall usermode.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove usermode.x86_64

usermode.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/security/console.apps/config-util
/usr/bin/consolehelper
/usr/sbin/userhelper
/usr/share/doc/usermode-1.111
/usr/share/doc/usermode-1.111/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/usermode-1.111/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/usermode-1.111/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/usermode-1.111/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/consolehelper.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/userhelper.8.gz

References

usermode.x86_64 website

Summary

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