How To Install libksba.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libksba.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libksba.i686 is CMS and X.509 library

Introduction

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

What is `libksba.i686`

KSBA (pronounced Kasbah) is a library to make X.509 certificates as well as the CMS easily accessible by other applications. Both specifications are building blocks of S/MIME and TLS.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libksba.i686

How To Uninstall libksba.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libksba.i686

libksba.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libksba.so.8
/usr/lib/libksba.so.8.11.1
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/COPYING.GPLv3
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/COPYING.LGPLv3
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libksba-1.3.0/VERSION

References

libksba.i686 website

Summary

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