How To Install rpcbind.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpcbind.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rpcbind.x86_64 is Universal Addresses to RPC Program Number Mapper

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpcbind.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `rpcbind.x86_64`

The rpcbind utility is a server that converts RPC program numbers into universal addresses. It must be running on the host to be able to make RPC calls on a server on that machine.

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

Install rpcbind.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 rpcbind.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rpcbind.x86_64

How To Uninstall rpcbind.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rpcbind.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rpcbind.x86_64

rpcbind.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/rpcbind
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rpcbind.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rpcbind.socket
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/rpcbind.conf
/usr/sbin/rpcbind
/usr/sbin/rpcinfo
/usr/share/doc/rpcbind-0.2.0
/usr/share/doc/rpcbind-0.2.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rpcbind-0.2.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rpcbind-0.2.0/README
/usr/share/man/man8/rpcbind.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rpcinfo.8.gz
/var/lib/rpcbind

References

rpcbind.x86_64 website

Summary

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