How To Install libIDL.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libIDL.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libIDL.i686 is Library for parsing IDL (Interface Definition Language)

Introduction

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

What is `libIDL.i686`

libIDL is a library for parsing IDL (Interface Definition Language). It can be used for both COM-style and CORBA-style IDL.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libIDL.i686

How To Uninstall libIDL.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libIDL.i686

libIDL.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libIDL-2.so.0
/usr/lib/libIDL-2.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/MAINTAINERS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/README

References

libIDL.i686 website

Summary

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