How To Install audit-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install audit-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. audit-libs.x86_64 is Dynamic library for libaudit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install audit-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `audit-libs.x86_64`

The audit-libs package contains the dynamic libraries needed for applications to use the audit framework.

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

Install audit-libs.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 audit-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install audit-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall audit-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the audit-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove audit-libs.x86_64

audit-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libaudit.conf
/lib64/libaudit.so.1
/lib64/libaudit.so.1.0.0
/lib64/libauparse.so.0
/lib64/libauparse.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/man/man5/libaudit.conf.5.gz

References

audit-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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