How To Install uuid.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. uuid.x86_64 is Universally Unique Identifier library

Introduction

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

What is `uuid.x86_64`

OSSP uuid is a ISO-C and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578 Unique Identifier (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and node based), version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4 (random number based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional API bindings are provided for the languages ISO-C++ exists for the ISO-C DCE-1.1 and Perl Data

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

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

sudo yum -y install uuid.x86_64

How To Uninstall uuid.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove uuid.x86_64

uuid.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/uuid
/usr/lib64/libossp-uuid.so.16
/usr/lib64/libossp-uuid.so.16.0.22
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/PORTING
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/README
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/SEEALSO
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/TODO
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/USERS
/usr/share/man/man1/uuid.1.gz

References

uuid.x86_64 website

Summary

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