How To Install libplist.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libplist.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libplist.i686 is Library for manipulating Apple Binary and XML Property Lists

Introduction

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

What is `libplist.i686`

libplist is a library for manipulating Apple Binary and XML Property Lists

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

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

sudo yum -y install libplist.i686

How To Uninstall libplist.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libplist.i686

libplist.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/plistutil
/usr/lib/libplist++.so.3
/usr/lib/libplist++.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib/libplist.so.3
/usr/lib/libplist.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libplist-1.12
/usr/share/doc/libplist-1.12/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libplist-1.12/README
/usr/share/licenses/libplist-1.12
/usr/share/licenses/libplist-1.12/COPYING.LESSER

References

libplist.i686 website

Summary

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