How to Install and Uninstall librdkafka.x86_64 Package on Amazon Linux 2

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "librdkafka.x86_64" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install librdkafka.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2


    
        
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                sudo yum makecache
            
                    
    
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                sudo yum install
            
                        
                librdkafka.x86_64
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "librdkafka.x86_64" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall librdkafka.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2:


    
        
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                sudo yum remove 
            
                        
                librdkafka.x86_64
            
                    
    
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                sudo yum autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the librdkafka.x86_64 package on Amazon Linux 2

Loaded plugins: ovl, priorities
Available Packages
Name : librdkafka
Arch : x86_64
Version : 0.11.4
Release : 1.amzn2
Size : 348 k
Repo : amzn2-core/2/x86_64
Summary : The Apache Kafka C library
URL : https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
License : BSD
Description : Librdkafka is a C/C++ library implementation of the Apache Kafka
: protocol, containing both Producer and Consumer support.
: It was designed with message delivery reliability and high
: performance in mind, current figures exceed 800000 messages/second
: for the producer and 3 million messages/second for the consumer.