How To Install amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64

This package provides Amazon SSM Agent for managing EC2 Instances using SSM APIs

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

Install amazon-ssm-agent.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 amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64

How To Uninstall amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64

amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/amazon/ssm/NOTICE.md
/etc/amazon/ssm/README.md
/etc/amazon/ssm/RELEASENOTES.md
/etc/amazon/ssm/amazon-ssm-agent.json.template
/etc/amazon/ssm/seelog.xml.template
/usr/bin/amazon-ssm-agent
/usr/bin/ssm-agent-worker
/usr/bin/ssm-cli
/usr/bin/ssm-document-worker
/usr/bin/ssm-session-logger
/usr/bin/ssm-session-worker
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amazon-ssm-agent.service
/var/lib/amazon/ssm
/var/log/amazon/ssm

References

• amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.