How To Install openslp-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslp-server.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openslp-server.x86_64 is OpenSLP server daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslp-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `openslp-server.x86_64`

Service Location Protocol is an IETF standards track protocol that provides a framework that allows networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services in enterprise networks. This package contains the SLP server. Every system, which provides any services that should be used via an SLP client must run this server and register the service.

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

Install openslp-server.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 openslp-server.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openslp-server.x86_64

How To Uninstall openslp-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the openslp-server.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove openslp-server.x86_64

openslp-server.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/slp.reg
/etc/slp.reg.d
/usr/lib/openslp-server
/usr/lib/openslp-server/slp-multicast-set.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/system/slpd.service
/usr/sbin/slpd
/usr/share/man/man8/slpd.8.gz

References

openslp-server.x86_64 website

Summary

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