How To Install compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 is Compatibility package with PackageKit 0.8 libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64`

Compatibility package with PackageKit 0.8 libraries.

We can use yum to install compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64.

Install compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.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 compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64

How To Uninstall compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64

compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpackagekit-glib2.so.16
/usr/lib64/libpackagekit-glib2.so.16.0.5
/usr/share/doc/compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16-0.8.9
/usr/share/doc/compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16-0.8.9/COPYING

References

compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-libpackagekit-glib2-16.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.