How To Install libfdt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfdt.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libfdt.i686 is Device tree library

Introduction

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

What is `libfdt.i686`

libfdt is a library to process Open Firmware style device trees on various architectures.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libfdt.i686

How To Uninstall libfdt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libfdt.i686

libfdt.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libfdt-1.4.7.so
/usr/lib/libfdt.so.1
/usr/share/licenses/libfdt-1.4.7
/usr/share/licenses/libfdt-1.4.7/GPL

References

libfdt.i686 website

Summary

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