How To Install libquadmath.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquadmath.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libquadmath.i686 is GCC __float128 shared support library

Introduction

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

What is `libquadmath.i686`

This package contains GCC shared support library which is needed for __float128 math support and for Fortran REAL*16 support.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libquadmath.i686

How To Uninstall libquadmath.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libquadmath.i686

libquadmath.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libquadmath.so.0
/usr/lib/libquadmath.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/info/libquadmath.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/libquadmath-7.3.1
/usr/share/licenses/libquadmath-7.3.1/COPYING.LIB.libquadmath

References

libquadmath.i686 website

Summary

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