How To Install libobjc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libobjc.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libobjc.i686 is Objective-C runtime

Introduction

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

What is `libobjc.i686`

This package contains Objective-C shared library which is needed to run Objective-C dynamically linked programs.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libobjc.i686

How To Uninstall libobjc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libobjc.i686

libobjc.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libobjc.so.4
/usr/lib/libobjc.so.4.0.0

References

libobjc.i686 website

Summary

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