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

Introduction

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

What is libaio-devel.x86_64

This package provides header files to include and libraries to link with for the Linux-native asynchronous I/O facility (“async I/O”, or “aio”).

We can use yum to install libaio-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 libaio-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libaio-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libaio-devel.x86_64

libaio-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/libaio.h
/usr/lib64/libaio.so

References

• libaio-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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