How To Install bind-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. bind-libs.i686 is Libraries used by the BIND DNS packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `bind-libs.i686`

Contains heavyweight version of BIND suite libraries used by both named DNS server and utilities in bind-utils package.

We can use yum to install bind-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bind-libs.i686.

Install bind-libs.i686 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 bind-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind-libs.i686

How To Uninstall bind-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the bind-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove bind-libs.i686

bind-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libbind9.so.160
/usr/lib/libbind9.so.160.0.8
/usr/lib/libisccc.so.160
/usr/lib/libisccc.so.160.0.3
/usr/lib/liblwres.so.160
/usr/lib/liblwres.so.160.0.2

References

bind-libs.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.