How To Install libattr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libattr.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libattr.x86_64 is Dynamic library for extended attribute support

Introduction

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

What is `libattr.x86_64`

This package contains the libattr.so dynamic library which contains the extended attribute system calls and library functions.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libattr.x86_64

How To Uninstall libattr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libattr.x86_64

libattr.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libattr.so.1
/usr/lib64/libattr.so.1.1.0

References

libattr.x86_64 website

Summary

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