How To Install libdb.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdb.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libdb.i686 is The Berkeley DB database library for C

Introduction

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

What is `libdb.i686`

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should be installed on all systems.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libdb.i686

How To Uninstall libdb.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libdb.i686

libdb.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libdb-5.3.so
/usr/lib/libdb-5.so
/usr/share/doc/libdb-5.3.21
/usr/share/doc/libdb-5.3.21/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libdb-5.3.21/README

References

libdb.i686 website

Summary

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