How To Install libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libnetfilter_queue.x86_64
libnetfilter_queue is a userspace library providing an API to packets that have been queued by the kernel packet filter. It is is part of a system that deprecates the old ip_queue / libipq mechanism. libnetfilter_queue has been previously known as libnfnetlink_queue.
We can use yum to install libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnetfilter_queue.x86_64.
Install libnetfilter_queue.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 libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libnetfilter_queue.x86_64
How To Uninstall libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libnetfilter_queue.x86_64
libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_queue.so.1
/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_queue.so.1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_queue-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_queue-1.0.2/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.