How To Install bzip2-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install bzip2-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. bzip2-libs.x86_64 is Libraries for applications using bzip2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bzip2-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `bzip2-libs.x86_64`

Libraries for applications using the bzip2 compression format.

We can use yum to install bzip2-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 bzip2-libs.x86_64.

Install bzip2-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 bzip2-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bzip2-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall bzip2-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the bzip2-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove bzip2-libs.x86_64

bzip2-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.6
/usr/share/doc/bzip2-libs-1.0.6
/usr/share/doc/bzip2-libs-1.0.6/LICENSE

References

bzip2-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bzip2-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.