How To Install pakchois.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pakchois.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. pakchois.i686 is A wrapper library for PKCS#11

Introduction

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

What is `pakchois.i686`

pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library. pakchois aims to provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface; offering a modern object-oriented C interface which does not hide any of the underlying interface, and avoids dependencies on any cryptography toolkit.

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

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

sudo yum -y install pakchois.i686

How To Uninstall pakchois.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pakchois.i686

pakchois.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libpakchois.so.0
/usr/lib/libpakchois.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/pakchois-0.4
/usr/share/doc/pakchois-0.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois-0.4/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois-0.4/README

References

pakchois.i686 website

Summary

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