How To Install lldpad.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install lldpad.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. lldpad.i686 is Intel LLDP Agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lldpad.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `lldpad.i686`

This package contains the Linux user space daemon and configuration tool for Intel LLDP Agent with Enhanced Ethernet support for the Data Center.

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

Install lldpad.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 lldpad.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lldpad.i686

How To Uninstall lldpad.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the lldpad.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove lldpad.i686

lldpad.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/lldpad
/etc/bash_completion.d/lldptool
/usr/lib/liblldp_clif.so.1
/usr/lib/liblldp_clif.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/lldpad.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/lldpad.socket
/usr/sbin/dcbtool
/usr/sbin/lldpad
/usr/sbin/lldptool
/usr/sbin/vdptool
/usr/share/doc/lldpad-1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/lldpad-1.0.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lldpad-1.0.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lldpad-1.0.1/README
/usr/share/man/man3/liblldp_clif-vdp22.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dcbtool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldpad.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool-app.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool-dcbx.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool-ets.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool-evb.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool-evb22.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool-med.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool-pfc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool-vdp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lldptool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdptool.8.gz
/var/lib/lldpad

References

lldpad.i686 website

Summary

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