How To Install softhsm-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install softhsm-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. softhsm-devel.x86_64 is Development package of softhsm that includes the header files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install softhsm-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `softhsm-devel.x86_64`

The devel package contains the libsofthsm include files

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

Install softhsm-devel.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 softhsm-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install softhsm-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall softhsm-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the softhsm-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove softhsm-devel.x86_64

softhsm-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/softhsm
/usr/include/softhsm/P11Attributes.h
/usr/include/softhsm/P11Objects.h
/usr/include/softhsm/SoftHSM.h
/usr/include/softhsm/access.h
/usr/include/softhsm/cryptoki.h

References

softhsm-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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