How To Install libgsf.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgsf.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libgsf.i686 is GNOME Structured File library

Introduction

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

What is `libgsf.i686`

A library for reading and writing structured files (e.g. MS OLE and Zip)

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgsf.i686

How To Uninstall libgsf.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgsf.i686

libgsf.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gsf-office-thumbnailer
/usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.114
/usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.114.0.26
/usr/share/doc/libgsf-1.14.26
/usr/share/doc/libgsf-1.14.26/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgsf-1.14.26/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgsf-1.14.26/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libgsf-1.14.26/README
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libgsf.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gsf-office-thumbnailer.1.gz
/usr/share/thumbnailers
/usr/share/thumbnailers/gsf-office.thumbnailer

References

libgsf.i686 website

Summary

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