How To Install libstoragemgmt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstoragemgmt.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libstoragemgmt.i686 is Storage array management library

Introduction

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

What is libstoragemgmt.i686

The libStorageMgmt library will provide a vendor agnostic open source storage application programming interface (API) that will allow management of storage arrays. The library includes a command line interface for interactive use and scripting (command lsmcli). The library also has a daemon that is used for executing plug-ins in a separate process (lsmd).

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

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

sudo yum -y install libstoragemgmt.i686

How To Uninstall libstoragemgmt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libstoragemgmt.i686

libstoragemgmt.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/lsm
/etc/lsm/lsmd.conf
/etc/lsm/pluginconf.d
/run/lsm
/run/lsm/ipc
/usr/bin/lsmcli
/usr/bin/lsmd
/usr/bin/simc_lsmplugin
/usr/lib/libstoragemgmt.so.1
/usr/lib/libstoragemgmt.so.1.6.1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/libstoragemgmt.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/libstoragemgmt.conf
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/lsmcli
/usr/share/doc/libstoragemgmt-1.6.1
/usr/share/doc/libstoragemgmt-1.6.1/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libstoragemgmt-1.6.1/README
/usr/share/man/man1/lsmcli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lsmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/simc_lsmplugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/lsmd.conf.5.5.gz

References

Summary

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