How To Install libdbusmenu.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbusmenu.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libdbusmenu.i686 is Library for passing menus over DBus

Introduction

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

What is `libdbusmenu.i686`

This is a small library designed to make sharing and displaying of menu structures over DBus simple and easy to use. It works for both QT and GTK+ and makes building menus simple.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libdbusmenu.i686

How To Uninstall libdbusmenu.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libdbusmenu.i686

libdbusmenu.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Dbusmenu-0.4.typelib
/usr/lib/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
/usr/lib/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4.0.12
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-16.04.0
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu-16.04.0
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/COPYING-GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/COPYING.2.1

References

libdbusmenu.i686 website

Summary

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