How To Install libcgroup.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcgroup.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libcgroup.i686 is Library to control and monitor control groups

Introduction

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

What is `libcgroup.i686`

Control groups infrastructure. The library helps manipulate, control, administrate and monitor control groups and the associated controllers.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libcgroup.i686

How To Uninstall libcgroup.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libcgroup.i686

libcgroup.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libcgroup.so.1
/usr/lib/libcgroup.so.1.0.41
/usr/share/doc/libcgroup-0.41
/usr/share/doc/libcgroup-0.41/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libcgroup-0.41/README

References

libcgroup.i686 website

Summary

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