How To Install libtasn1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtasn1.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libtasn1.i686 is The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtasn1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libtasn1.i686`

A library that provides Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1, as specified by the X.680 ITU-T recommendation) parsing and structures management, and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER, as per X.690) encoding and decoding functions.

We can use yum to install libtasn1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libtasn1.i686.

Install libtasn1.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 libtasn1.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libtasn1.i686

How To Uninstall libtasn1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libtasn1.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libtasn1.i686

libtasn1.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libtasn1.so.6
/usr/lib/libtasn1.so.6.5.3
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/README
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/libtasn1.pdf

References

libtasn1.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtasn1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.