How To Install ntpdate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ntpdate.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ntpdate.x86_64 is Utility to set the date and time via NTP

Introduction

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

What is `ntpdate.x86_64`

ntpdate is a program for retrieving the date and time from NTP servers.

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

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

sudo yum -y install ntpdate.x86_64

How To Uninstall ntpdate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove ntpdate.x86_64

ntpdate.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/ntp
/etc/ntp/step-tickers
/etc/sysconfig/ntpdate
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpdate.service
/usr/libexec/ntpdate-wrapper
/usr/sbin/ntpdate
/usr/share/doc/ntpdate-4.2.8p15
/usr/share/doc/ntpdate-4.2.8p15/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/man/man8/ntpdate.8.gz

References

ntpdate.x86_64 website

Summary

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