How To Install libgo.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgo.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libgo.i686 is Go runtime

Introduction

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

What is `libgo.i686`

This package contains Go shared library which is needed to run Go dynamically linked programs.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgo.i686

How To Uninstall libgo.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgo.i686

libgo.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libgo.so.11
/usr/lib/libgo.so.11.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgo-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libgo-7.3.1/LICENSE.libgo
/usr/share/doc/libgo-7.3.1/PATENTS.libgo
/usr/share/doc/libgo-7.3.1/README.libgo

References

libgo.i686 website

Summary

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