How To Install libpciaccess.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpciaccess.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpciaccess.x86_64 is PCI access library

Introduction

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

What is `libpciaccess.x86_64`

libpciaccess is a library for portable PCI access routines across multiple operating systems.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libpciaccess.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpciaccess.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libpciaccess.x86_64

libpciaccess.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpciaccess.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpciaccess.so.0.11.1
/usr/share/doc/libpciaccess-0.14
/usr/share/doc/libpciaccess-0.14/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libpciaccess-0.14/COPYING

References

libpciaccess.x86_64 website

Summary

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