How To Install libICE.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libICE.i686`

The X.Org X11 ICE (Inter-Client Exchange) runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libICE.i686

How To Uninstall libICE.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libICE.i686

libICE.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libICE.so.6
/usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libICE
/usr/share/doc/libICE/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libICE/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libICE/ChangeLog

References

libICE.i686 website

Summary

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