How To Install libpmempool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmempool.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpmempool.x86_64 is Persistent Memory pool management library

Introduction

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

What is `libpmempool.x86_64`

The libpmempool library provides a set of utilities for off-line administration, analysis, diagnostics and repair of persistent memory pools created by libpmemlog, libpemblk and libpmemobj libraries.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libpmempool.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpmempool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libpmempool.x86_64

libpmempool.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

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

References

libpmempool.x86_64 website

Summary

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