How To Install libasyncns.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libasyncns.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libasyncns.i686 is Asynchronous Name Service Library

Introduction

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

What is `libasyncns.i686`

A small and lightweight library that implements easy to use asynchronous wrappers around the libc NSS functions getaddrinfo(), res_query() and related.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libasyncns.i686

How To Uninstall libasyncns.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libasyncns.i686

libasyncns.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libasyncns.so.0
/usr/lib/libasyncns.so.0.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns-0.8
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns-0.8/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns-0.8/README

References

libasyncns.i686 website

Summary

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