How To Install squid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install squid-sysvinit.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. squid-sysvinit.x86_64 is SysV initscript for squid caching proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install squid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `squid-sysvinit.x86_64`

The squid-sysvinit contains SysV initscritps support.

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

Install squid-sysvinit.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 squid-sysvinit.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install squid-sysvinit.x86_64

How To Uninstall squid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the squid-sysvinit.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove squid-sysvinit.x86_64

squid-sysvinit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid

References

squid-sysvinit.x86_64 website

Summary

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