How To Install chrpath.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install chrpath.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. chrpath.x86_64 is Modify rpath of compiled programs

Introduction

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

What is `chrpath.x86_64`

chrpath allows you to modify the dynamic library load path (rpath) of compiled programs. Currently, only removing and modifying the rpath is supported.

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

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

sudo yum -y install chrpath.x86_64

How To Uninstall chrpath.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove chrpath.x86_64

chrpath.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/chrpath
/usr/share/doc/chrpath-0.16
/usr/share/doc/chrpath-0.16/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/chrpath-0.16/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/chrpath-0.16/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/chrpath-0.16/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/chrpath-0.16/README
/usr/share/man/man1/chrpath.1.gz

References

chrpath.x86_64 website

Summary

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