How To Install brlapi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install brlapi.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. brlapi.i686 is Application Programming Interface for BRLTTY

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brlapi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `brlapi.i686`

This package provides the run-time support for the Application Programming Interface to BRLTTY. Install this package if you have an application which directly accesses a refreshable braille display.

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

Install brlapi.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 brlapi.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install brlapi.i686

How To Uninstall brlapi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the brlapi.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove brlapi.i686

brlapi.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/vstp
/usr/bin/xbrlapi
/usr/lib/brltty/libbrlttybba.so
/usr/lib/libbrlapi.so.0.6
/usr/lib/libbrlapi.so.0.6.0
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-1.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-2.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-3.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-4.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-5.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-6.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-7.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.sgml
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.txt
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/README
/usr/share/man/man1/vstp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xbrlapi.1.gz

References

brlapi.i686 website

Summary

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