How To Install yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch is Yum plugin to lock specified packages from being updated

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch`

This plugin takes a set of name/versions for packages and excludes all other versions of those packages (including optionally following obsoletes). This allows you to protect packages from being updated by newer versions, for example.

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

Install yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch 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 yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch

How To Uninstall yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch

yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.conf
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/versionlock.py
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/versionlock.pyc
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/versionlock.pyo
/usr/share/doc/yum-plugin-versionlock-1.1.31
/usr/share/doc/yum-plugin-versionlock-1.1.31/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/yum-plugin-versionlock-1.1.31/README
/usr/share/man/man1/yum-versionlock.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/yum-versionlock.conf.5.gz

References

yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-versionlock.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.