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

In this tutorial we learn how to install svrcore-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. svrcore-devel.x86_64 is Development files for secure PIN handling using NSS crypto

Introduction

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

What is svrcore-devel.x86_64

svrcore provides applications with several ways to handle secure PIN storage e.g. in an application that must be restarted, but needs the PIN to unlock the private key and other crypto material, without user intervention. svrcore uses the facilities provided by NSS. This package contains header files and symlinks to develop programs which will use the libsvrcore library. You should install this package if you need to develop programs which will use the svrcore library.

We can use yum to install svrcore-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 svrcore-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install svrcore-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove svrcore-devel.x86_64

svrcore-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/svrcore.h
/usr/lib64/libsvrcore.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/svrcore.pc

References

Summary

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