How To Install compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 is Fortran runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686

This package contains Fortran shared library which is needed to run Fortran dynamically linked programs.

We can use yum to install compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686.

Install compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.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 compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686

How To Uninstall compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686

compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-gcc-48-libgfortran.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.