libnsl.so.1 for AL2023

[jbergman-apiture]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2023? Please describe and include package name. libnsl.so.1

Is this an update to existing package or new package request? This is present in AL2 being used with Amazon Corretto devel jdk 1.8

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? If it is available via external sources such as EPEL, please specify. Yes it is

Any additional information you'd like to include. (use-cases, etc) This works in AL2 with just the install of amazon-corretto-jdk-devel. I installed the same package in AL2023 (via dnf) and this lib is not available.

[stewartsmith]

If you mean libnsl as in NIS / YellowPages, it's been deprecated and no longer present in AL2023. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/deprecated-al2.html#deprecated-yp-nis

[elsaco]

@jbergman-apiture AL2023 does provide libnsl:

[ec2-user] [~]$ dnf info libnsl
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:04 ago on Mon Jun 17 16:58:59 2024.
Available Packages
Name         : libnsl
Version      : 2.34
Release      : 52.amzn2023.0.10
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 64 k
Source       : glibc-2.34-52.amzn2023.0.10.src.rpm
Repository   : amazonlinux
Summary      : Legacy support library for NIS
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The package contents:

[ec2-user] [~]$ rpm -qpl libnsl-2.34-52.amzn2023.0.10.x86_64.rpm
/lib64/libnsl.so.1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/08ab8c539114e5eb89918353206096b8c595e4

libnsl is not a dependency of java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto so it won't be pulled just by installing this package. Run dnf install libnsl

[jbergman-apiture]

@elsaco Thank you for this. I am going to try and install this now and see what happens.

[jbergman-apiture]

@elsaco This seems to have worked. The update was not immediate, but after sometime (~4 mins) the error went away when the application was invoked.
Thank You! 🎉