How To Install libsmbclient.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbclient.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsmbclient.x86_64 is The SMB client library

Introduction

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

What is `libsmbclient.x86_64`

The libsmbclient contains the SMB client library from the Samba suite.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libsmbclient.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsmbclient.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libsmbclient.x86_64

libsmbclient.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libsmbclient.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsmbclient.so.0.5.0

References

libsmbclient.x86_64 website

Summary

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