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

In this tutorial we learn how to install elfutils-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. elfutils-libs.i686 is Libraries to handle compiled objects

Introduction

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

What is `elfutils-libs.i686`

The elfutils-libs package contains libraries which implement DWARF, ELF, and machine-specific ELF handling. These libraries are used by the programs in the elfutils package. The elfutils-devel package enables building other programs using these libraries.

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

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

sudo yum -y install elfutils-libs.i686

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

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

sudo yum remove elfutils-libs.i686

elfutils-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/elfutils
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_aarch64-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_aarch64.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_alpha-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_alpha.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_arm-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_arm.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_bpf-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_bpf.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_i386-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_i386.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_ia64-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_ia64.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_m68k-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_m68k.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_ppc-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_ppc.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_ppc64-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_ppc64.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_riscv-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_riscv.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_s390-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_s390.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_sh-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_sh.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_sparc-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_sparc.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_tilegx-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_tilegx.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_x86_64-0.176.so
/usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_x86_64.so
/usr/lib/libasm-0.176.so
/usr/lib/libasm.so.1
/usr/lib/libdw-0.176.so
/usr/lib/libdw.so.1
/usr/share/licenses/elfutils-libs-0.176
/usr/share/licenses/elfutils-libs-0.176/COPYING-GPLV2
/usr/share/licenses/elfutils-libs-0.176/COPYING-LGPLV3

References

elfutils-libs.i686 website

Summary

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