How To Install libqb.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libqb.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libqb.i686 is An IPC library for high performance servers

Introduction

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

What is `libqb.i686`

libqb provides high-performance, reusable features for client-server architecture, such as logging, tracing, inter-process communication (IPC), and polling.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libqb.i686

How To Uninstall libqb.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libqb.i686

libqb.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libqb.so.0
/usr/lib/libqb.so.0.19.2
/usr/sbin/qb-blackbox
/usr/share/licenses/libqb-1.0.5
/usr/share/licenses/libqb-1.0.5/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/qb-blackbox.8.gz

References

libqb.i686 website

Summary

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