How To Install libuuid.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuuid.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libuuid.i686 is Universally unique ID library

Introduction

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

What is `libuuid.i686`

This is the universally unique ID library, part of util-linux. The libuuid library generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id’s (UUID’s). A UUID is an identifier that is unique across both space and time, with respect to the space of all UUIDs. A UUID can be used for multiple purposes, from tagging objects with an extremely short lifetime, to reliably identifying very persistent objects across a network. See also the “uuid” package, which is a separate implementation.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libuuid.i686

How To Uninstall libuuid.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libuuid.i686

libuuid.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libuuid.so.1
/usr/lib/libuuid.so.1.3.0
/usr/share/licenses/libuuid-2.30.2
/usr/share/licenses/libuuid-2.30.2/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libuuid-2.30.2/COPYING.BSD-3

References

libuuid.i686 website

Summary

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