How To Install tmpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tmpwatch.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tmpwatch.x86_64 is A utility for removing files based on when they were last accessed

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tmpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `tmpwatch.x86_64`

The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time. Tmpwatch is normally used to clean up directories which are used for temporarily holding files (for example, /tmp). Tmpwatch ignores symlinks, won’t switch filesystems and only removes empty directories and regular files.

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

Install tmpwatch.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 tmpwatch.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tmpwatch.x86_64

How To Uninstall tmpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the tmpwatch.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove tmpwatch.x86_64

tmpwatch.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/tmpwatch
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch
/usr/share/doc/tmpwatch-2.11
/usr/share/doc/tmpwatch-2.11/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tmpwatch-2.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tmpwatch-2.11/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tmpwatch-2.11/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tmpwatch-2.11/README
/usr/share/man/man8/tmpwatch.8.gz

References

tmpwatch.x86_64 website

Summary

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