How To Install libhif.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhif.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libhif.x86_64 is Simple package library built on top of hawkey and librepo

Introduction

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

What is `libhif.x86_64`

This library provides a simple interface to hawkey and librepo and is currently used by PackageKit and rpm-ostree.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libhif.x86_64

How To Uninstall libhif.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libhif.x86_64

libhif.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Hif-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libhif.so.1
/usr/lib64/libhif.so.1.0.8
/usr/share/doc/libhif-0.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libhif-0.2.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libhif-0.2.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libhif-0.2.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libhif-0.2.1/README.md

References

libhif.x86_64 website

Summary

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