How To Install libselinux-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libselinux-static.x86_64 is Static libraries used to build SELinux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libselinux-static.x86_64`

The libselinux-static package contains the static libraries needed for developing SELinux applications.

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

Install libselinux-static.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 libselinux-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libselinux-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libselinux-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libselinux-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libselinux-static.x86_64

libselinux-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libselinux.a

References

libselinux-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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