How To Install nss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nss.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. nss.i686 is Network Security Services

Introduction

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

What is `nss.i686`

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.

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

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

sudo yum -y install nss.i686

How To Uninstall nss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove nss.i686

nss.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pki/nss-legacy
/etc/pki/nss-legacy/nss-rhel7.config
/etc/pki/nssdb
/etc/pki/nssdb/cert8.db
/etc/pki/nssdb/cert9.db
/etc/pki/nssdb/key3.db
/etc/pki/nssdb/key4.db
/etc/pki/nssdb/pkcs11.txt
/etc/pki/nssdb/secmod.db
/usr/lib/libnss3.so
/usr/lib/libnssckbi.so
/usr/lib/libsmime3.so
/usr/lib/libssl3.so
/usr/lib/nss/libnssckbi.so
/usr/share/man/man5/cert8.db.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/cert9.db.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/key3.db.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/key4.db.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pkcs11.txt.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/secmod.db.5.gz

References

nss.i686 website

Summary

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