How To Install libtevent.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtevent.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libtevent.i686 is The tevent library

Introduction

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

What is libtevent.i686

Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library. Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and the classic file descriptor events. Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libtevent.i686

How To Uninstall libtevent.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libtevent.i686

libtevent.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libtevent.so.0
/usr/lib/libtevent.so.0.9.39

References

Summary

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