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

In this tutorial we learn how to install sysvinit-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sysvinit-tools.x86_64 is Tools used for process and utmp management.

Introduction

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

What is `sysvinit-tools.x86_64`

The sysvinit-tools package contains various tools used for process management.

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

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

sudo yum -y install sysvinit-tools.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove sysvinit-tools.x86_64

sysvinit-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/last
/usr/bin/lastb
/usr/bin/mesg
/usr/bin/wall
/usr/sbin/killall5
/usr/sbin/pidof
/usr/share/doc/sysvinit-tools-2.88
/usr/share/doc/sysvinit-tools-2.88/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/sysvinit-tools-2.88/Changelog
/usr/share/man/man1/last.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lastb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mesg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wall.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/killall5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pidof.8.gz

References

sysvinit-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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