How To Install folks.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install folks.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. folks.i686 is GObject contact aggregation library

Introduction

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

What is `folks.i686`

libfolks is a library that aggregates people from multiple sources (e.g. Telepathy connection managers and eventually evolution data server, Facebook, etc.) to create meta-contacts.

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

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

sudo yum -y install folks.i686

How To Uninstall folks.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove folks.i686

folks.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/folks
/usr/lib/folks/43
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/bluez
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/bluez/bluez.so
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/dummy
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/dummy/dummy.so
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/eds
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/eds/eds.so
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/key-file
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/key-file/key-file.so
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/ofono
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/ofono/ofono.so
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/telepathy
/usr/lib/folks/43/backends/telepathy/telepathy.so
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Folks-0.6.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/FolksDummy-0.6.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/FolksEds-0.6.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/FolksTelepathy-0.6.typelib
/usr/lib/libfolks-dummy.so.25
/usr/lib/libfolks-dummy.so.25.18.4
/usr/lib/libfolks-eds.so.25
/usr/lib/libfolks-eds.so.25.18.4
/usr/lib/libfolks-telepathy.so.25
/usr/lib/libfolks-telepathy.so.25.18.4
/usr/lib/libfolks.so.25
/usr/lib/libfolks.so.25.18.4
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/folks.convert
/usr/share/doc/folks-0.11.4
/usr/share/doc/folks-0.11.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/folks-0.11.4/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/folks-0.11.4/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.folks.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/folks-0.11.4
/usr/share/licenses/folks-0.11.4/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/folks.mo

References

folks.i686 website

Summary

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