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

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

Introduction

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

What is `iptables-libs.i686`

iptables libraries. Please remember that libip*tc libraries do neither have a stable API nor a real so version. For more information about this, please have a look at http

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

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

sudo yum -y install iptables-libs.i686

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

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

sudo yum remove iptables-libs.i686

iptables-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libip4tc.so.2
/usr/lib/libip4tc.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libip6tc.so.2
/usr/lib/libip6tc.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libiptc.so.1
/usr/lib/libiptc.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxtables.so.12
/usr/lib/libxtables.so.12.2.0

References

iptables-libs.i686 website

Summary

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