How To Install meanwhile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. meanwhile.x86_64 is Lotus Sametime Community Client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `meanwhile.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install meanwhile.x86_64.

Install meanwhile.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install meanwhile.x86_64

How To Uninstall meanwhile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the meanwhile.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove meanwhile.x86_64

meanwhile.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmeanwhile.so.1
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.