How To Install OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 is The OpenIPMI runtime libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64`

The OpenIPMI-libs package contains the runtime libraries for shared binaries and applications.

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

Install OpenIPMI-libs.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 OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64

OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libIPMIlanserv.so.0
/usr/lib64/libIPMIlanserv.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMI.so.0
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMI.so.0.0.5
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIcmdlang.so.0
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIcmdlang.so.0.0.5
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIglib.so.0
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIglib.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIposix.so.0
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIposix.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIpthread.so.0
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIpthread.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIui.so.1
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIui.so.1.0.1
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIutils.so.0
/usr/lib64/libOpenIPMIutils.so.0.0.1

References

OpenIPMI-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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