How To Install liblockfile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblockfile.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. liblockfile.x86_64 is This implements a number of functions found in -lmail on SysV

Introduction

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

What is `liblockfile.x86_64`

This library implements a number of functions found in -lmail on SysV systems. These functions are designed to lock the standard mailboxes in /var/mail (or wherever the system puts them). In additions, this library adds a number of functions to create, manage and remove generic lockfiles.

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

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

sudo yum -y install liblockfile.x86_64

How To Uninstall liblockfile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove liblockfile.x86_64

liblockfile.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/dotlockfile
/usr/lib64/liblockfile.so.1
/usr/lib64/liblockfile.so.1.0
/usr/share/doc/liblockfile-1.08
/usr/share/doc/liblockfile-1.08/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/liblockfile-1.08/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/liblockfile-1.08/README
/usr/share/man/man1/dotlockfile.1.gz

References

liblockfile.x86_64 website

Summary

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