How To Install libndp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libndp.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libndp.i686 is Library for Neighbor Discovery Protocol

Introduction

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

What is `libndp.i686`

This package contains a library which provides a wrapper for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol. It also provides a tool named ndptool for sending and receiving NDP messages.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libndp.i686

How To Uninstall libndp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libndp.i686

libndp.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ndptool
/usr/lib/libndp.so.0
/usr/lib/libndp.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libndp-1.2
/usr/share/doc/libndp-1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/ndptool.8.gz

References

libndp.i686 website

Summary

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