How To Install libassuan.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libassuan.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libassuan.x86_64 is GnuPG IPC library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libassuan.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libassuan.x86_64`

This is the IPC library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME and a few other packages.

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

Install libassuan.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 libassuan.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libassuan.x86_64

How To Uninstall libassuan.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libassuan.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libassuan.x86_64

libassuan.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0
/usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0.4.0
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/TODO

References

libassuan.x86_64 website

Summary

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