How To Install uuidd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuidd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. uuidd.x86_64 is Helper daemon to guarantee uniqueness of time-based UUIDs

Introduction

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

What is `uuidd.x86_64`

The uuidd package contains a userspace daemon (uuidd) which guarantees uniqueness of time-based UUID generation even at very high rates on SMP systems.

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

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

sudo yum -y install uuidd.x86_64

How To Uninstall uuidd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove uuidd.x86_64

uuidd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/run/uuidd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/uuidd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/uuidd.socket
/usr/sbin/uuidd
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/uuidd
/usr/share/licenses/uuidd-2.30.2
/usr/share/licenses/uuidd-2.30.2/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/man/man8/uuidd.8.gz
/var/lib/libuuid

References

uuidd.x86_64 website

Summary

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