How To Install libassuan.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libassuan.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libassuan.i686 is GnuPG IPC library

Introduction

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

What is `libassuan.i686`

This is the IPC library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME and a few other packages.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libassuan.i686

How To Uninstall libassuan.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libassuan.i686

libassuan.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libassuan.so.0
/usr/lib/libassuan.so.0.4.0
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.1.0/TODO

References

libassuan.i686 website

Summary

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