How To Install meanwhile.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. meanwhile.i686 is Lotus Sametime Community Client library

Introduction

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

What is `meanwhile.i686`

The heart of the meanwhile Project is the meanwhile library, providing the basic Lotus Sametime session functionality along with the core services; Presence Awareness, Instant Messaging, Multi-user Conferencing, Preferences Storage, Identity Resolution, and File Transfer.

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

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

sudo yum -y install meanwhile.i686

How To Uninstall meanwhile.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove meanwhile.i686

meanwhile.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.1
/usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile-1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile-1.1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile-1.1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile-1.1.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile-1.1.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile-1.1.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile-1.1.0/README
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile-1.1.0/TODO

References

meanwhile.i686 website

Summary

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