How To Install ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch is Hibernation setup utility for AWS EC2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch`

An EC2 agent that creates a setup for instance hibernation

We can use yum to install ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch.

Install ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch 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 ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch

How To Uninstall ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch

ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/acpi
/etc/acpi/actions
/etc/acpi/actions/sleep.sh
/etc/acpi/events
/etc/acpi/events/sleepconf
/etc/hibinit-config.cfg
/usr/bin/hibinit-agent
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hibinit-agent.service
/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent-1.0.2/README.md
/var/lib/hibinit-agent
/var/lib/hibinit-agent/hibernation-enabled

References

ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.