How To Install librepo.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install librepo.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. librepo.i686 is Repodata downloading library

Introduction

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

What is `librepo.i686`

A library providing C and Python (libcURL like) API to downloading repository metadata.

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

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

sudo yum -y install librepo.i686

How To Uninstall librepo.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove librepo.i686

librepo.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/librepo.so.0
/usr/share/doc/librepo-1.8.1
/usr/share/doc/librepo-1.8.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/librepo-1.8.1/README.md

References

librepo.i686 website

Summary

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