How To Install rpm-build-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpm-build-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rpm-build-libs.x86_64 is Libraries for building and signing RPM packages

Introduction

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

What is `rpm-build-libs.x86_64`

This package contains the RPM shared libraries for building and signing packages.

We can use yum to install rpm-build-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 rpm-build-libs.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install rpm-build-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall rpm-build-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove rpm-build-libs.x86_64

rpm-build-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/librpmbuild.so.3
/usr/lib64/librpmbuild.so.3.2.2
/usr/lib64/librpmsign.so.1
/usr/lib64/librpmsign.so.1.2.2

References

rpm-build-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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