How To Install libvisio.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisio.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libvisio.i686 is A library for import of Microsoft Visio diagrams

Introduction

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

What is `libvisio.i686`

libvisio is library providing ability to interpret and import Microsoft Visio diagrams into various applications. You can find it being used in LibreOffice.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libvisio.i686

How To Uninstall libvisio.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libvisio.i686

libvisio.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libvisio-0.1.so.1
/usr/lib/libvisio-0.1.so.1.0.6
/usr/share/doc/libvisio-0.1.6
/usr/share/doc/libvisio-0.1.6/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvisio-0.1.6/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvisio-0.1.6/README
/usr/share/licenses/libvisio-0.1.6
/usr/share/licenses/libvisio-0.1.6/COPYING.MPL

References

libvisio.i686 website

Summary

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