How To Install ORBit2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ORBit2.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. ORBit2.i686 is A high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ORBit2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ORBit2.i686`

ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker). It allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables communication between program objects, regardless of the programming language they’re written in or the operating system they run on. You will need to install this package and ORBit-devel if you want to write programs that use CORBA technology.

We can use yum to install ORBit2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ORBit2.i686.

Install ORBit2.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 ORBit2.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ORBit2.i686

How To Uninstall ORBit2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ORBit2.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ORBit2.i686

ORBit2.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib/libORBit-imodule-2.so.0
/usr/lib/libORBit-imodule-2.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0
/usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib/orbit-2.0
/usr/lib/orbit-2.0/Everything_module.so
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19/README
/usr/share/doc/ORBit2-2.14.19/TODO

References

ORBit2.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ORBit2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.