How To Install libfreehand.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfreehand.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libfreehand.i686 is A library for import of Macromedia/Adobe FreeHand documents

Introduction

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

What is `libfreehand.i686`

libfreehand is library providing ability to interpret and import Macromedia/Adobe FreeHand documents into various applications.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libfreehand.i686

How To Uninstall libfreehand.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libfreehand.i686

libfreehand.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libfreehand-0.1.so.1
/usr/lib/libfreehand-0.1.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libfreehand-0.1.1
/usr/share/doc/libfreehand-0.1.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libfreehand-0.1.1/COPYING

References

libfreehand.i686 website

Summary

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