How To Install libmspack.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmspack.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmspack.x86_64 is Library for CAB and related files compression and decompression

Introduction

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

What is `libmspack.x86_64`

The purpose of libmspack is to provide both compression and decompression of some loosely related file formats used by Microsoft.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmspack.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmspack.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmspack.x86_64

libmspack.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmspack.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmspack.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/README
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/TODO

References

libmspack.x86_64 website

Summary

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