How To Install libfdt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfdt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libfdt.x86_64 is Device tree library

Introduction

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

What is `libfdt.x86_64`

libfdt is a library to process Open Firmware style device trees on various architectures.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libfdt.x86_64

How To Uninstall libfdt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libfdt.x86_64

libfdt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libfdt-1.4.7.so
/usr/lib64/libfdt.so.1
/usr/share/licenses/libfdt-1.4.7
/usr/share/licenses/libfdt-1.4.7/GPL

References

libfdt.x86_64 website

Summary

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