How To Install libshout.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libshout.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libshout.i686 is Icecast source streaming library

Introduction

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

What is `libshout.i686`

libshout is a library for communicating with and sending data to an icecast server. It handles the socket connection, the timing of the data, and prevents most bad data from getting to the icecast server.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libshout.i686

How To Uninstall libshout.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libshout.i686

libshout.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libshout.so.3
/usr/lib/libshout.so.3.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libshout-2.2.2
/usr/share/doc/libshout-2.2.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libshout-2.2.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libshout-2.2.2/README

References

libshout.i686 website

Summary

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