How To Install usb_modeswitch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install usb_modeswitch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is usb_modeswitch.x86_64
USB Modeswitch brings up your datacard into operational mode. When plugged in they identify themselves as cdrom and present some non-Linux compatible installation files. This tool deactivates this cdrom-device and enables the real communication device. It supports most devices built and sold by Huawei, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Option, ZTE, Novatel.
We can use yum to install usb_modeswitch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install usb_modeswitch.x86_64.
Install usb_modeswitch.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 usb_modeswitch.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install usb_modeswitch.x86_64
How To Uninstall usb_modeswitch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the usb_modeswitch.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove usb_modeswitch.x86_64
usb_modeswitch.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/usb_modeswitch.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/udev/usb_modeswitch
/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch
/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch_dispatcher
/usr/share/doc/usb_modeswitch-2.5.1
/usr/share/doc/usb_modeswitch-2.5.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/usb_modeswitch-2.5.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/usb_modeswitch-2.5.1/README
/usr/share/doc/usb_modeswitch-2.5.1/device_reference.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/usb_modeswitch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/usb_modeswitch_dispatcher.1.gz
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install usb_modeswitch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.