How To Install libpurple.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurple.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libpurple.i686 is libpurple library for IM clients like Pidgin and Finch

Introduction

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

What is `libpurple.i686`

libpurple contains the core IM support for IM clients such as Pidgin and Finch. libpurple supports a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, Jabber, Bonjour, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, Simple and Zephyr.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libpurple.i686

How To Uninstall libpurple.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libpurple.i686

libpurple.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/purple
/etc/purple/prefs.xml
/usr/bin/purple-client-example
/usr/bin/purple-remote
/usr/bin/purple-send
/usr/bin/purple-send-async
/usr/bin/purple-url-handler
/usr/lib/libpurple-client.so.0
/usr/lib/libpurple-client.so.0.10.11
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0.10.11
/usr/lib/purple-2
/usr/lib/purple-2/autoaccept.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/buddynote.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/dbus-example.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/idle.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/joinpart.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/libbonjour.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/libicq.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/libirc.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/purple-2/libnovell.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so.0
/usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/purple-2/libsametime.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/libsimple.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/libxmpp.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/libzephyr.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/log_reader.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/newline.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/nss-prefs.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/offlinemsg.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/one_time_password.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/psychic.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/ssl-nss.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/ssl.so
/usr/lib/purple-2/statenotify.so
/usr/share/doc/libpurple-2.10.11
/usr/share/doc/libpurple-2.10.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libpurple-2.10.11/purple-notifications-example
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku_IQ/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mhr/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/my_MM/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sw/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo
/usr/share/purple
/usr/share/purple/ca-certs
/usr/share/purple/ca-certs/AOL_Member_CA.pem
/usr/share/purple/ca-certs/DigiCertHighAssuranceCA-3.pem
/usr/share/purple/ca-certs/Microsoft_Internet_Authority_2010.pem
/usr/share/purple/ca-certs/Microsoft_Secure_Server_Authority_2010.pem
/usr/share/purple/ca-certs/VeriSign_Class3_Extended_Validation_CA.pem
/usr/share/purple/ca-certs/VeriSign_International_Server_Class_3_CA.pem
/usr/share/sounds/purple
/usr/share/sounds/purple/alert.wav
/usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav
/usr/share/sounds/purple/logout.wav
/usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav
/usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav

References

libpurple.i686 website

Summary

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