How To Install lockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install lockdev.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. lockdev.x86_64 is A library for locking devices

Introduction

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

What is `lockdev.x86_64`

Lockdev provides a reliable way to put an exclusive lock to devices using both FSSTND and SVr4 methods.

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

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

sudo yum -y install lockdev.x86_64

How To Uninstall lockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove lockdev.x86_64

lockdev.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/liblockdev.so.1
/usr/lib64/liblockdev.so.1.0.0
/usr/sbin/lockdev
/usr/share/doc/lockdev-1.0.4
/usr/share/doc/lockdev-1.0.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lockdev-1.0.4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/lockdev.8.gz
/var/lock/lockdev

References

lockdev.x86_64 website

Summary

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