How To Install orc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install orc.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. orc.i686 is The Oil Run-time Compiler

Introduction

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

What is `orc.i686`

Orc is a library and set of tools for compiling and executing very simple programs that operate on arrays of data. The “language” is a generic assembly language that represents many of the features available in SIMD architectures, including saturated addition and subtraction, and many arithmetic operations.

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

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

sudo yum -y install orc.i686

How To Uninstall orc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove orc.i686

orc.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/orc-bugreport
/usr/lib/liborc-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib/liborc-0.4.so.0.25.0
/usr/lib/liborc-test-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib/liborc-test-0.4.so.0.25.0
/usr/share/doc/orc-0.4.26
/usr/share/doc/orc-0.4.26/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/orc-0.4.26/README

References

orc.i686 website

Summary

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