How To Install libsmbclient.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbclient.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libsmbclient.i686 is The SMB client library

Introduction

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

What is `libsmbclient.i686`

The libsmbclient contains the SMB client library from the Samba suite.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libsmbclient.i686

How To Uninstall libsmbclient.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libsmbclient.i686

libsmbclient.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0
/usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0.5.0

References

libsmbclient.i686 website

Summary

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