How To Install libsecret.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsecret.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libsecret.i686 is Library for storing and retrieving passwords and other secrets

Introduction

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

What is `libsecret.i686`

libsecret is a library for storing and retrieving passwords and other secrets. It communicates with the “Secret Service” using DBus. gnome-keyring and KSecretService are both implementations of a Secret Service.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libsecret.i686

How To Uninstall libsecret.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libsecret.i686

libsecret.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/secret-tool
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Secret-1.typelib
/usr/lib/libsecret-1.so.0
/usr/lib/libsecret-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libsecret-0.18.5
/usr/share/doc/libsecret-0.18.5/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libsecret-0.18.5/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libsecret-0.18.5/README
/usr/share/licenses/libsecret-0.18.5
/usr/share/licenses/libsecret-0.18.5/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libsecret.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/secret-tool.1.gz

References

libsecret.i686 website

Summary

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