How To Install opensm-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install opensm-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. opensm-libs.i686 is Libraries used by opensm and included utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opensm-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `opensm-libs.i686`

Shared libraries for Infiniband user space access

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

Install opensm-libs.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 opensm-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install opensm-libs.i686

How To Uninstall opensm-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the opensm-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove opensm-libs.i686

opensm-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libopensm.so.5
/usr/lib/libopensm.so.5.2.3
/usr/lib/libosmcomp.so.3
/usr/lib/libosmcomp.so.3.0.10
/usr/lib/libosmvendor.so.4
/usr/lib/libosmvendor.so.4.0.2

References

opensm-libs.i686 website

Summary

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