How To Install protobuf-lite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-lite.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. protobuf-lite.i686 is Protocol Buffers LITE_RUNTIME libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-lite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is protobuf-lite.i686

Protocol Buffers built with optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME. The “optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME” option causes the compiler to generate code which only depends libprotobuf-lite, which is much smaller than libprotobuf but lacks descriptors, reflection, and some other features.

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

Install protobuf-lite.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 protobuf-lite.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install protobuf-lite.i686

How To Uninstall protobuf-lite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the protobuf-lite.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove protobuf-lite.i686

protobuf-lite.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so.8
/usr/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so.8.0.0

References

Summary

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