How To Install libatomic_ops.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libatomic_ops.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libatomic_ops.i686 is Atomic memory update operations

Introduction

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

What is `libatomic_ops.i686`

Provides implementations for atomic memory update operations on a number of architectures. This allows direct use of these in reasonably portable code. Unlike earlier similar packages, this one explicitly considers memory barrier semantics, and allows the construction of code that involves minimum overhead across a variety of architectures.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libatomic_ops.i686

How To Uninstall libatomic_ops.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libatomic_ops.i686

libatomic_ops.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libatomic_ops.so.1
/usr/lib/libatomic_ops.so.1.1.1
/usr/lib/libatomic_ops_gpl.so.1
/usr/lib/libatomic_ops_gpl.so.1.1.2
/usr/share/doc/libatomic_ops-7.6.2
/usr/share/doc/libatomic_ops-7.6.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libatomic_ops-7.6.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libatomic_ops-7.6.2/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libatomic_ops-7.6.2
/usr/share/licenses/libatomic_ops-7.6.2/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libatomic_ops-7.6.2/LICENSING.txt

References

libatomic_ops.i686 website

Summary

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