How To Install nettle.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nettle.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. nettle.i686 is A low-level cryptographic library

Introduction

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

What is `nettle.i686`

Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, …), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.

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

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

sudo yum -y install nettle.i686

How To Uninstall nettle.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove nettle.i686

nettle.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/nettle-hash
/usr/bin/nettle-lfib-stream
/usr/bin/pkcs1-conv
/usr/bin/sexp-conv
/usr/lib/.libhogweed.so.2.5.hmac
/usr/lib/.libhogweed.so.2.hmac
/usr/lib/.libnettle.so.4.7.hmac
/usr/lib/.libnettle.so.4.hmac
/usr/lib/libhogweed.so.2
/usr/lib/libhogweed.so.2.5
/usr/lib/libnettle.so.4
/usr/lib/libnettle.so.4.7
/usr/share/doc/nettle-2.7.1
/usr/share/doc/nettle-2.7.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nettle-2.7.1/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/nettle-2.7.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nettle-2.7.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nettle-2.7.1/README
/usr/share/doc/nettle-2.7.1/TODO
/usr/share/info/nettle.info.gz

References

nettle.i686 website

Summary

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