How To Install libcilkrts.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcilkrts.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libcilkrts.i686 is The Cilk+ runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libcilkrts.i686`

This package contains the Cilk+ runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libcilkrts.i686

How To Uninstall libcilkrts.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libcilkrts.i686

libcilkrts.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libcilkrts.so.5
/usr/lib/libcilkrts.so.5.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcilkrts-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libcilkrts-7.3.1/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/doc/libcilkrts-7.3.1/README

References

libcilkrts.i686 website

Summary

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