How To Install libfabric.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfabric.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libfabric.x86_64 is Open Fabric Interfaces

Introduction

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

What is libfabric.x86_64

OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric communication services to applications. OFI is best described as a collection of libraries and applications used to export fabric services. The key components of OFI are application interfaces, provider libraries, kernel services, daemons, and test applications. Libfabric is a core component of OFI. It is the library that defines and exports the user-space API of OFI, and is typically the only software that applications deal with directly. It works in conjunction with provider libraries, which are often integrated directly into libfabric.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libfabric.x86_64

How To Uninstall libfabric.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libfabric.x86_64

libfabric.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/fi_info
/usr/bin/fi_pingpong
/usr/bin/fi_strerror
/usr/lib64/libfabric.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfabric.so.1.11.0
/usr/share/licenses/libfabric-1.8.0
/usr/share/licenses/libfabric-1.8.0/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fi_info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fi_pingpong.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fi_strerror.1.gz

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Summary

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