How To Install plymouth-core-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-core-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. plymouth-core-libs.i686 is Plymouth core libraries

Introduction

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

What is `plymouth-core-libs.i686`

This package contains the libply and libply-splash-core libraries used by Plymouth.

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

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

sudo yum -y install plymouth-core-libs.i686

How To Uninstall plymouth-core-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove plymouth-core-libs.i686

plymouth-core-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libply-boot-client.so.2
/usr/lib/libply-boot-client.so.2.1.0
/usr/lib/libply-splash-core.so.2
/usr/lib/libply-splash-core.so.2.1.0
/usr/lib/libply.so.2
/usr/lib/libply.so.2.1.0
/usr/lib/plymouth

References

plymouth-core-libs.i686 website

Summary

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