How To Install libmsn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmsn.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmsn.x86_64 is Library for connecting to the MSN Messenger service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmsn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libmsn.x86_64`

Libmsn is a reusable, open-source, fully documented library for connecting to the MSN Messenger service.

We can use yum to install libmsn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libmsn.x86_64.

Install libmsn.x86_64 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 libmsn.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmsn.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmsn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libmsn.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libmsn.x86_64

libmsn.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/msntest
/usr/lib64/libmsn.so.0.3
/usr/lib64/libmsn.so.0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libmsn-4.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libmsn-4.2.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libmsn-4.2.1/README
/usr/share/doc/libmsn-4.2.1/THANKS

References

libmsn.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmsn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.