How To Install libacl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libacl.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libacl.i686 is Dynamic library for access control list support

Introduction

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

What is `libacl.i686`

This package contains the libacl.so dynamic library which contains the POSIX 1003.1e draft standard 17 functions for manipulating access control lists.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libacl.i686

How To Uninstall libacl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libacl.i686

libacl.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libacl.so.1
/usr/lib/libacl.so.1.1.0

References

libacl.i686 website

Summary

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