How To Install freetype.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. freetype.i686 is A free and portable font rendering engine

Introduction

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

What is `freetype.i686`

The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install freetype.i686

How To Uninstall freetype.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove freetype.i686

freetype.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.14.0
/usr/share/doc/freetype-2.8
/usr/share/doc/freetype-2.8/README
/usr/share/licenses/freetype-2.8
/usr/share/licenses/freetype-2.8/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype-2.8/GPLv2.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype-2.8/LICENSE.TXT

References

freetype.i686 website

Summary

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