How To Install ldns-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ldns-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ldns-devel.x86_64 is Development package that includes the ldns header files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ldns-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ldns-devel.x86_64`

The devel package contains the ldns library and the include files

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

Install ldns-devel.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 ldns-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ldns-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall ldns-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ldns-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ldns-devel.x86_64

ldns-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ldns-config
/usr/include/ldns
/usr/include/ldns/buffer.h
/usr/include/ldns/common.h
/usr/include/ldns/dane.h
/usr/include/ldns/dname.h
/usr/include/ldns/dnssec.h
/usr/include/ldns/dnssec_sign.h
/usr/include/ldns/dnssec_verify.h
/usr/include/ldns/dnssec_zone.h
/usr/include/ldns/duration.h
/usr/include/ldns/error.h
/usr/include/ldns/higher.h
/usr/include/ldns/host2str.h
/usr/include/ldns/host2wire.h
/usr/include/ldns/keys.h
/usr/include/ldns/ldns.h
/usr/include/ldns/net.h
/usr/include/ldns/packet.h
/usr/include/ldns/parse.h
/usr/include/ldns/rbtree.h
/usr/include/ldns/rdata.h
/usr/include/ldns/resolver.h
/usr/include/ldns/rr.h
/usr/include/ldns/rr_functions.h
/usr/include/ldns/sha1.h
/usr/include/ldns/sha2.h
/usr/include/ldns/str2host.h
/usr/include/ldns/tsig.h
/usr/include/ldns/update.h
/usr/include/ldns/util.h
/usr/include/ldns/wire2host.h
/usr/include/ldns/zone.h
/usr/lib64/libldns.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ldns.pc
/usr/share/doc/ldns-devel-1.6.16
/usr/share/doc/ldns-devel-1.6.16/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/ldns-devel-1.6.16/README

References

ldns-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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