How To Install libidn.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libidn.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libidn.i686 is Internationalized Domain Name support library

Introduction

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

What is `libidn.i686`

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libidn.i686

How To Uninstall libidn.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libidn.i686

libidn.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/idn
/usr/lib/libidn.so.11
/usr/lib/libidn.so.11.6.11
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYING.LESSERv2
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYINGv3
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/README
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/THANKS
/usr/share/info/libidn.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/idn.1.gz

References

libidn.i686 website

Summary

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