How To Install capstone.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. capstone.i686 is A lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly

Introduction

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

What is `capstone.i686`

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.

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

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

sudo yum -y install capstone.i686

How To Uninstall capstone.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove capstone.i686

capstone.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cstool
/usr/lib/libcapstone.so.3
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5/LICENSE_LLVM.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5/README

References

capstone.i686 website

Summary

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