How To Install libatasmart.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libatasmart.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libatasmart.x86_64 is ATA S.M.A.R.T. Disk Health Monitoring Library

Introduction

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

What is `libatasmart.x86_64`

A small and lightweight parser library for ATA S.M.A.R.T. hard disk health monitoring.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libatasmart.x86_64

How To Uninstall libatasmart.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libatasmart.x86_64

libatasmart.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libatasmart.so.4
/usr/lib64/libatasmart.so.4.0.5
/usr/sbin/skdump
/usr/sbin/sktest
/usr/share/doc/libatasmart-0.19
/usr/share/doc/libatasmart-0.19/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/libatasmart-0.19/README

References

libatasmart.x86_64 website

Summary

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