How To Install daxctl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. daxctl.x86_64 is Manage Device-DAX instances

Introduction

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

What is `daxctl.x86_64`

The daxctl utility provides enumeration and provisioning commands for the Linux kernel Device-DAX facility. This facility enables DAX mappings of performance / feature differentiated memory without need of a filesystem.

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

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

sudo yum -y install daxctl.x86_64

How To Uninstall daxctl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove daxctl.x86_64

daxctl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/daxctl
/usr/share/daxctl/daxctl.conf
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-64.1
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-64.1/BSD-MIT
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-64.1/CC0
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-64.1/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-migrate-device-model.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl.1.gz

References

daxctl.x86_64 website

Summary

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