How To Install libunwind.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunwind.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libunwind.i686 is An unwinding library

Introduction

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

What is `libunwind.i686`

Libunwind provides a C ABI to determine the call-chain of a program.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libunwind.i686

How To Uninstall libunwind.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libunwind.i686

libunwind.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libunwind-coredump.so.0
/usr/lib/libunwind-coredump.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libunwind-x86.so.8
/usr/lib/libunwind-x86.so.8.0.1
/usr/lib/libunwind.so.8
/usr/lib/libunwind.so.8.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libunwind-1.2
/usr/share/doc/libunwind-1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libunwind-1.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libunwind-1.2/README

References

libunwind.i686 website

Summary

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