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

In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. glusterfs-libs.i686 is GlusterFS common libraries

Introduction

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

What is `glusterfs-libs.i686`

GlusterFS is a distributed file-system capable of scaling to several petabytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is one of the most sophisticated file systems in terms of features and extensibility. It borrows a powerful concept called Translators from GNU Hurd kernel. Much of the code in GlusterFS is in user space and easily manageable. This package provides the base GlusterFS libraries

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

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

sudo yum -y install glusterfs-libs.i686

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

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

sudo yum remove glusterfs-libs.i686

glusterfs-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libgfchangelog.so.0
/usr/lib/libgfchangelog.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/libgfrpc.so.0
/usr/lib/libgfrpc.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/libgfxdr.so.0
/usr/lib/libgfxdr.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/libglusterfs.so.0
/usr/lib/libglusterfs.so.0.0.1

References

glusterfs-libs.i686 website

Summary

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