How To Install device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64 is The device-mapper-multipath modules and shared library

Introduction

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

What is device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64

The device-mapper-multipath-libs provides the path checker and prioritizer modules. It also contains the libmpathpersist and libmpathcmd shared libraries, as well as multipath’s internal library, libmultipath.

We can use yum to install device-mapper-multipath-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 device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64.

Install device-mapper-multipath-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 device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64

device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmpathcmd.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmpathpersist.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmultipath.so
/usr/lib64/libmultipath.so.0
/usr/lib64/multipath
/usr/lib64/multipath/libcheckcciss_tur.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libcheckdirectio.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libcheckemc_clariion.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libcheckhp_sw.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libcheckhp_tur.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libcheckrdac.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libcheckreadsector0.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libchecktur.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libprioalua.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libprioana.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libprioconst.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libpriodatacore.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libprioemc.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libpriohds.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libpriohp_sw.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libprioiet.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libprioontap.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libpriorandom.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libpriordac.so
/usr/lib64/multipath/libprioweightedpath.so
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9/AUTHOR
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9/COPYING

References

Summary

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