How To Install libev.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libev.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libev.i686 is High-performance event loop/event model with lots of features

Introduction

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

What is `libev.i686`

Libev is modeled (very loosely) after libevent and the Event Perl module, but is faster, scales better and is more correct, and also more featureful. And also smaller.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libev.i686

How To Uninstall libev.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libev.i686

libev.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libev.so.4
/usr/lib/libev.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libev-4.24
/usr/share/doc/libev-4.24/Changes
/usr/share/doc/libev-4.24/README
/usr/share/licenses/libev-4.24
/usr/share/licenses/libev-4.24/LICENSE

References

libev.i686 website

Summary

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