How To Install libluksmeta.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libluksmeta.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libluksmeta.x86_64 is Library for storing small metadata in the LUKSv1 header

Introduction

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

What is `libluksmeta.x86_64`

LUKSMeta is a C library for storing small portions of metadata in the LUKSv1 header for use before unlocking the volume.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libluksmeta.x86_64

How To Uninstall libluksmeta.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libluksmeta.x86_64

libluksmeta.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libluksmeta.so.0
/usr/lib64/libluksmeta.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libluksmeta-8
/usr/share/licenses/libluksmeta-8/COPYING

References

libluksmeta.x86_64 website

Summary

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