How To Install libitm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libitm.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libitm.i686 is The GNU Transactional Memory library

Introduction

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

What is `libitm.i686`

This package contains the GNU Transactional Memory library which is a GCC transactional memory support runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libitm.i686

How To Uninstall libitm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libitm.i686

libitm.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libitm.so.1
/usr/lib/libitm.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/info/libitm.info.gz

References

libitm.i686 website

Summary

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