How To Install lksctp-tools.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lksctp-tools.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is lksctp-tools.i686

This is the lksctp-tools package for Linux Kernel SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) Reference Implementation. This package is intended to supplement the Linux Kernel SCTP Reference Implementation now available in the Linux kernel source tree in versions 2.5.36 and following. For more information on LKSCTP see the package documentation README file, section titled “LKSCTP - Linux Kernel SCTP.” This package contains the base run-time library and command-line tools.

We can use yum to install lksctp-tools.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lksctp-tools.i686.

Install lksctp-tools.i686 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 lksctp-tools.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lksctp-tools.i686

How To Uninstall lksctp-tools.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the lksctp-tools.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove lksctp-tools.i686

lksctp-tools.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/checksctp
/usr/bin/sctp_darn
/usr/bin/sctp_status
/usr/bin/sctp_test
/usr/bin/withsctp
/usr/lib/libsctp.so.1
/usr/lib/libsctp.so.1.0.17
/usr/lib/lksctp-tools
/usr/lib/lksctp-tools/libwithsctp.so.1
/usr/lib/lksctp-tools/libwithsctp.so.1.0.17
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/COPYING.lib
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lksctp-tools-1.0.17/README
/usr/share/man/man7/sctp.7.gz

References

• lksctp-tools.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lksctp-tools.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.