How To Install bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 is Bind libraries compiled with native PKCS#11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64`

This is a set of BIND libraries (dns, isc) compiled with native PKCS#11 functionality.

We can use yum to install bind-pkcs11-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 bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64.

Install bind-pkcs11-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 bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64

bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libdns-pkcs11.so.1102
/usr/lib64/libdns-pkcs11.so.1102.1.2
/usr/lib64/libisc-pkcs11.so.169
/usr/lib64/libisc-pkcs11.so.169.0.3

References

bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-pkcs11-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.