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

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64 is Development libraries and headers for tcp_wrappers

Introduction

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

What is tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64

tcp_wrappers-devel contains the libraries and header files needed to develop applications with tcp_wrappers support.

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

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

sudo yum -y install tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64

tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/tcpd.h
/usr/lib64/libwrap.so
/usr/share/man/man3/hosts_access.3.gz

References

Summary

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