How To Install pps-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pps-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pps-tools.x86_64 is LinuxPPS user-space tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pps-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pps-tools.x86_64`

This package includes the LinuxPPS user-space tools.

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

Install pps-tools.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 pps-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pps-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall pps-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pps-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pps-tools.x86_64

pps-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ppsctl
/usr/bin/ppsfind
/usr/bin/ppstest
/usr/bin/ppswatch
/usr/share/doc/pps-tools-0
/usr/share/doc/pps-tools-0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pps-tools-0/README
/usr/share/doc/pps-tools-0/copyright

References

pps-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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