How To Install libfontenc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfontenc.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libfontenc.i686 is X.Org X11 libfontenc runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libfontenc.i686`

X.Org X11 libfontenc runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libfontenc.i686

How To Uninstall libfontenc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libfontenc.i686

libfontenc.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libfontenc.so.1
/usr/lib/libfontenc.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libfontenc-1.1.3
/usr/share/doc/libfontenc-1.1.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libfontenc-1.1.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libfontenc-1.1.3/README

References

libfontenc.i686 website

Summary

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