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

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. openssl-libs.i686 is A general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation

Introduction

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

What is openssl-libs.i686

OpenSSL is a toolkit for supporting cryptography. The openssl-libs package contains the libraries that are used by various applications which support cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

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

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

sudo yum -y install openssl-libs.i686

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

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

sudo yum remove openssl-libs.i686

openssl-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pki/tls
/etc/pki/tls/certs
/etc/pki/tls/misc
/etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf
/etc/pki/tls/private
/usr/lib/.libcrypto.so.1.0.2k.hmac
/usr/lib/.libcrypto.so.10.hmac
/usr/lib/.libssl.so.1.0.2k.hmac
/usr/lib/.libssl.so.10.hmac
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.2k
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.10
/usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.2k
/usr/lib/libssl.so.10
/usr/lib/openssl
/usr/lib/openssl/engines
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/lib4758cca.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libaep.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libatalla.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libcapi.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libchil.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libcswift.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libgmp.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libnuron.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libpadlock.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libsureware.so
/usr/lib/openssl/engines/libubsec.so
/usr/share/licenses/openssl-libs-1.0.2k
/usr/share/licenses/openssl-libs-1.0.2k/LICENSE

References

Summary

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