How To Install libfabric.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfabric.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libfabric.i686
OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric communication services to applications. OFI is best described as a collection of libraries and applications used to export fabric services. The key components of OFI are application interfaces, provider libraries, kernel services, daemons, and test applications. Libfabric is a core component of OFI. It is the library that defines and exports the user-space API of OFI, and is typically the only software that applications deal with directly. It works in conjunction with provider libraries, which are often integrated directly into libfabric.
We can use yum to install libfabric.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libfabric.i686.
Install libfabric.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 libfabric.i686 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libfabric.i686
How To Uninstall libfabric.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libfabric.i686 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libfabric.i686
libfabric.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/fi_info
/usr/bin/fi_pingpong
/usr/bin/fi_strerror
/usr/lib/libfabric.so.1
/usr/lib/libfabric.so.1.11.0
/usr/share/licenses/libfabric-1.8.0
/usr/share/licenses/libfabric-1.8.0/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fi_info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fi_pingpong.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fi_strerror.1.gz
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfabric.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.