How To Install hwloc-plugins.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc-plugins.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. hwloc-plugins.x86_64 is Plugins for hwloc

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc-plugins.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `hwloc-plugins.x86_64`

This package contains plugins for hwloc. This includes - PCI support - GL support - libxml support

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

Install hwloc-plugins.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 hwloc-plugins.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hwloc-plugins.x86_64

How To Uninstall hwloc-plugins.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the hwloc-plugins.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove hwloc-plugins.x86_64

hwloc-plugins.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/hwloc
/usr/lib64/hwloc/hwloc_pci.so
/usr/lib64/hwloc/hwloc_xml_libxml.so

References

hwloc-plugins.x86_64 website

Summary

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