How To Install cmirror.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmirror.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cmirror.x86_64 is Daemon for device-mapper-based clustered mirrors

Introduction

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

What is `cmirror.x86_64`

Daemon providing device-mapper-based mirrors in a shared-storage cluster.

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

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

sudo yum -y install cmirror.x86_64

How To Uninstall cmirror.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove cmirror.x86_64

cmirror.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/cmirrord
/usr/share/man/man8/cmirrord.8.gz

References

cmirror.x86_64 website

Summary

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