How To Install e2fsprogs-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsprogs-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. e2fsprogs-libs.i686 is Ext2/3/4 filesystem-specific shared libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsprogs-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `e2fsprogs-libs.i686`

E2fsprogs-libs contains libe2p and libext2fs, the libraries of the e2fsprogs package. These libraries are used to directly acccess ext2/3/4 filesystems from userspace.

We can use yum to install e2fsprogs-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install e2fsprogs-libs.i686.

Install e2fsprogs-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 e2fsprogs-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install e2fsprogs-libs.i686

How To Uninstall e2fsprogs-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the e2fsprogs-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove e2fsprogs-libs.i686

e2fsprogs-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libe2p.so.2
/usr/lib/libe2p.so.2.3
/usr/lib/libext2fs.so.2
/usr/lib/libext2fs.so.2.4
/usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs-libs-1.42.9
/usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs-libs-1.42.9/COPYING

References

e2fsprogs-libs.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsprogs-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.