How To Install libnfsidmap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnfsidmap.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libnfsidmap.x86_64 is NFSv4 User and Group ID Mapping Library

Introduction

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

What is `libnfsidmap.x86_64`

Library that handles mapping between names and ids for NFSv4.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libnfsidmap.x86_64

How To Uninstall libnfsidmap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libnfsidmap.x86_64

libnfsidmap.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/idmapd.conf
/lib64/libnfsidmap.so.0
/lib64/libnfsidmap.so.0.3.0
/lib64/libnfsidmap/nsswitch.so
/lib64/libnfsidmap/static.so
/lib64/libnfsidmap/umich_ldap.so
/usr/share/doc/libnfsidmap-0.25
/usr/share/doc/libnfsidmap-0.25/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libnfsidmap-0.25/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libnfsidmap-0.25/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libnfsidmap-0.25/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libnfsidmap-0.25/README
/usr/share/man/man3/nfs4_uid_to_name.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/idmapd.conf.5.gz

References

libnfsidmap.x86_64 website

Summary

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