How To Install krb5-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install krb5-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. krb5-libs.i686 is The non-admin shared libraries used by Kerberos 5

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install krb5-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `krb5-libs.i686`

Kerberos is a network authentication system. The krb5-libs package contains the shared libraries needed by Kerberos 5. If you are using Kerberos, you need to install this package.

We can use yum to install krb5-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install krb5-libs.i686.

Install krb5-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 krb5-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install krb5-libs.i686

How To Uninstall krb5-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the krb5-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove krb5-libs.i686

krb5-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/gss
/etc/gss/mech.d
/etc/krb5.conf
/etc/krb5.conf.d
/usr/lib/krb5
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins/authdata
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins/kdb
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins/libkrb5
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins/preauth
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins/tls
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins/tls/k5tls.so
/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2
/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
/usr/lib/libgssrpc.so.4
/usr/lib/libgssrpc.so.4.2
/usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3
/usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3.1
/usr/lib/libkdb5.so.8
/usr/lib/libkdb5.so.8.0
/usr/lib/libkrad.so.0
/usr/lib/libkrad.so.0.0
/usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3
/usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3.3
/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0
/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0.1
/usr/share/doc/krb5-libs-1.15.1
/usr/share/doc/krb5-libs-1.15.1/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/krb5-libs-1.15.1/README
/usr/share/doc/krb5-libs-1.15.1/examples
/usr/share/doc/krb5-libs-1.15.1/examples/kdc.conf
/usr/share/doc/krb5-libs-1.15.1/examples/krb5.conf
/usr/share/doc/krb5-libs-1.15.1/examples/services.append
/usr/share/licenses/krb5-libs-1.15.1
/usr/share/licenses/krb5-libs-1.15.1/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mit-krb5.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/mit-krb5.mo
/usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/k5identity.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/k5login.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/krb5.conf.5.gz
/var/kerberos
/var/kerberos/krb5
/var/kerberos/krb5/user

References

krb5-libs.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install krb5-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.