How To Install libsysfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsysfs-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsysfs-devel.x86_64 is Static library and headers for libsysfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsysfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libsysfs-devel.x86_64`

libsysfs-devel provides the header files and static libraries required to build programs using the libsysfs API.

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

Install libsysfs-devel.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 libsysfs-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsysfs-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsysfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libsysfs-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libsysfs-devel.x86_64

libsysfs-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/lib64/libsysfs.so
/usr/include/sysfs
/usr/include/sysfs/dlist.h
/usr/include/sysfs/libsysfs.h

References

libsysfs-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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