How To Install libgcab1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgcab1.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgcab1.x86_64 is Library to create Cabinet archives

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgcab1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libgcab1.x86_64`

libgcab is a library to manipulate Cabinet archive using GIO/GObject.

We can use yum to install libgcab1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgcab1.x86_64.

Install libgcab1.x86_64 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 libgcab1.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgcab1.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgcab1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libgcab1.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libgcab1.x86_64

libgcab1.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GCab-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgcab-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgcab-1.0.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgcab1-0.7
/usr/share/doc/libgcab1-0.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgcab1-0.7/NEWS
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo

References

libgcab1.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgcab1.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.