How To Install libblockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libblockdev.x86_64 is A library for low-level manipulation with block devices

Introduction

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

What is `libblockdev.x86_64`

The libblockdev is a C library with GObject introspection support that can be used for doing low-level operations with block devices like setting up LVM, BTRFS, LUKS or MD RAID. The library uses plugins (LVM, BTRFS,…) and serves as a thin wrapper around its plugins’ functionality. All the plugins, however, can be used as standalone libraries. One of the core principles of libblockdev is that it is stateless from the storage configuration’s perspective (e.g. it has no information about VGs when creating an LV).

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

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

sudo yum -y install libblockdev.x86_64

How To Uninstall libblockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libblockdev.x86_64

libblockdev.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libblockdev
/etc/libblockdev/conf.d
/etc/libblockdev/conf.d/00-default.cfg
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/BlockDev-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libblockdev.so.2
/usr/lib64/libblockdev.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libblockdev-2.18
/usr/share/licenses/libblockdev-2.18/LICENSE

References

libblockdev.x86_64 website

Summary

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