How To Install libbpf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbpf.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libbpf.x86_64 is Libbpf library

Introduction

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

What is `libbpf.x86_64`

A mirror of bpf-next linux tree bpf-next/tools/lib/bpf directory plus its supporting header files. The version of the package reflects the version of ABI.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libbpf.x86_64

How To Uninstall libbpf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libbpf.x86_64

libbpf.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libbpf.so.0
/usr/lib64/libbpf.so.0.3.0

References

libbpf.x86_64 website

Summary

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