How To Install nspr.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nspr.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. nspr.i686 is Netscape Portable Runtime

Introduction

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

What is nspr.i686

NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.

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

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

sudo yum -y install nspr.i686

How To Uninstall nspr.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove nspr.i686

nspr.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libnspr4.so
/usr/lib/libplc4.so
/usr/lib/libplds4.so

References

Summary

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