How To Install libmspub.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmspub.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libmspub.i686 is A library for import of Microsoft Publisher documents

Introduction

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

What is `libmspub.i686`

Libmspub is library providing ability to interpret and import Microsoft Publisher content into various applications. You can find it being used in libreoffice.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmspub.i686

How To Uninstall libmspub.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmspub.i686

libmspub.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libmspub-0.1.so.1
/usr/lib/libmspub-0.1.so.1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libmspub-0.1.2
/usr/share/doc/libmspub-0.1.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmspub-0.1.2/COPYING.MPL

References

libmspub.i686 website

Summary

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