How To Install libwps.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwps.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libwps.i686 is A library for import of Microsoft Works documents

Introduction

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

What is `libwps.i686`

libwps is a library for import of Microsoft Works text documents, spreadsheets and (in a limited way) databases. Full list of supported formats is available at https

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

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

sudo yum -y install libwps.i686

How To Uninstall libwps.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libwps.i686

libwps.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libwps-0.4.so.4
/usr/lib/libwps-0.4.so.4.0.7
/usr/share/doc/libwps-0.4.7
/usr/share/doc/libwps-0.4.7/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/libwps-0.4.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libwps-0.4.7/README
/usr/share/licenses/libwps-0.4.7
/usr/share/licenses/libwps-0.4.7/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/licenses/libwps-0.4.7/COPYING.MPL

References

libwps.i686 website

Summary

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