How To Install libcap-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libcap-static.x86_64 is Static libraries for libcap development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libcap-static.x86_64`

The libcap-static package contains static libraries needed to develop programs that use libcap and need to be statically linked. libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.

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

Install libcap-static.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 libcap-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcap-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libcap-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libcap-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libcap-static.x86_64

libcap-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libcap.a
/usr/lib64/libpsx.a

References

libcap-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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