How To Install openssl-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openssl-static.x86_64 is Libraries for static linking of applications which will use

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is openssl-static.x86_64

OpenSSL is a toolkit for supporting cryptography. The openssl-static package contains static libraries needed for static linking of applications which support various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

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

Install openssl-static.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 openssl-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openssl-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall openssl-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the openssl-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove openssl-static.x86_64

openssl-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libcrypto.a
/usr/lib64/libssl.a

References

Summary

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