How To Install openssl11-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl11-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openssl11-libs.x86_64 is A general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl11-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `openssl11-libs.x86_64`

OpenSSL is a toolkit for supporting cryptography. The openssl11-libs package contains the libraries that are used by various applications which support cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

We can use yum to install openssl11-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 openssl11-libs.x86_64.

Install openssl11-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 openssl11-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openssl11-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall openssl11-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the openssl11-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove openssl11-libs.x86_64

openssl11-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/.libcrypto.so.1.1.1g.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libcrypto.so.1.1.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libssl.so.1.1.1g.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libssl.so.1.1.hmac
/usr/lib64/engines-1.1
/usr/lib64/engines-1.1/afalg.so
/usr/lib64/engines-1.1/capi.so
/usr/lib64/engines-1.1/padlock.so
/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1
/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1.1g
/usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1
/usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1.1g
/usr/share/licenses/openssl11-libs-1.1.1g
/usr/share/licenses/openssl11-libs-1.1.1g/LICENSE

References

openssl11-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl11-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.