How To Install ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 is OCaml bindings for libguestfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64`

ocaml-libguestfs contains OCaml bindings for libguestfs. This is for toplevel and scripting access only. To compile OCaml programs which use libguestfs you will also need ocaml-libguestfs-devel.

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

Install ocaml-libguestfs.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 ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64

How To Uninstall ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64

ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs
/usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/META
/usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/guestfs.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/mlguestfs.cma
/usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs/dllmlguestfs.so
/usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs/dllmlguestfs.so.owner

References

ocaml-libguestfs.x86_64 website

Summary

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