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

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 is Libraries for tcp_wrappers

Introduction

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

What is `tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64`

tcp_wrappers-libs contains the libraries of the tcp_wrappers package.

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

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

sudo yum -y install tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64

tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libwrap.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwrap.so.0.7.6
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/BLURB
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/Banners.Makefile
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/DISCLAIMER
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/README
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/README.IRIX
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/README.NIS
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/README.ipv6
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6/README.ipv6.2
/usr/share/man/man5/hosts.allow.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/hosts.deny.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/hosts_access.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/hosts_options.5.gz

References

tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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