How To Install libmnl-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmnl-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmnl-static.x86_64 is Static development files for libmnl

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmnl-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libmnl-static.x86_64`

The libmnl-static package contains static libraries for devleoping applications that use libmnl.

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

Install libmnl-static.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 libmnl-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmnl-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmnl-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libmnl-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libmnl-static.x86_64

libmnl-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmnl.a

References

libmnl-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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