How To Install mt-st.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mt-st.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mt-st.x86_64 is Tool for controlling tape drives

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mt-st.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mt-st.x86_64`

The mt-st package contains the mt and st tape drive management programs. Mt (for magnetic tape drives) and st (for SCSI tape devices) can control rewinding, ejecting, skipping files and blocks and more. Install mt-st if you need a tool to manage tape drives.

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

Install mt-st.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 mt-st.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mt-st.x86_64

How To Uninstall mt-st.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mt-st.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mt-st.x86_64

mt-st.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/mt
/usr/lib/systemd/system/stinit.service
/usr/sbin/stinit
/usr/share/doc/mt-st-1.1
/usr/share/doc/mt-st-1.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mt-st-1.1/README
/usr/share/doc/mt-st-1.1/README.stinit
/usr/share/doc/mt-st-1.1/mt-st-1.1.lsm
/usr/share/doc/mt-st-1.1/stinit.def.examples
/usr/share/man/man1/mt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/stinit.8.gz

References

mt-st.x86_64 website

Summary

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