How To Install libosinfo.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libosinfo.i686 is A library for managing OS information for virtualization

Introduction

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

What is `libosinfo.i686`

libosinfo is a library that allows virtualization provisioning tools to determine the optimal device settings for a hypervisor/operating system combination.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libosinfo.i686

How To Uninstall libosinfo.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libosinfo.i686

libosinfo.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/osinfo-detect
/usr/bin/osinfo-install-script
/usr/bin/osinfo-query
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Libosinfo-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libosinfo-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libosinfo-1.0.so.0.1001.0
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo-1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo-1.1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo-1.1.0/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo-1.1.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo-1.1.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo-1.1.0/README
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/anp/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/bal/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/bo/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/brx/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ilo/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/kw/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/kw@kkcor/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/kw@uccor/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/kw_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/tw/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/wba/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/yo/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-detect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-install-script.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-query.1.gz

References

libosinfo.i686 website

Summary

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