How To Install libpmemblk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemblk.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpmemblk.x86_64 is Persistent Memory Resident Array of Blocks library

Introduction

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

What is `libpmemblk.x86_64`

The libpmemblk implements a pmem-resident array of blocks, all the same size, where a block is updated atomically with respect to power failure or program interruption (no torn blocks).

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

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

sudo yum -y install libpmemblk.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpmemblk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libpmemblk.x86_64

libpmemblk.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpmemblk.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpmemblk.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpmemblk-1.3
/usr/share/doc/libpmemblk-1.3/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libpmemblk-1.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libpmemblk-1.3/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemblk-1.3
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemblk-1.3/LICENSE

References

libpmemblk.x86_64 website

Summary

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