How To Install libmount-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmount-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libmount-devel.x86_64

This is the device mounting development library and headers, part of util-linux.

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

Install libmount-devel.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 libmount-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmount-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmount-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libmount-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libmount-devel.x86_64

libmount-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/libmount
/usr/include/libmount/libmount.h
/usr/lib64/libmount.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/mount.pc

References

• libmount-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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