How To Install qrencode-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qrencode-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. qrencode-libs.i686 is QR Code encoding library - Shared libraries

Introduction

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

What is `qrencode-libs.i686`

The qrencode-libs package contains the shared libraries and header files for applications that use qrencode.

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

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

sudo yum -y install qrencode-libs.i686

How To Uninstall qrencode-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove qrencode-libs.i686

qrencode-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libqrencode.so.3
/usr/lib/libqrencode.so.3.4.1
/usr/share/doc/qrencode-libs-3.4.1
/usr/share/doc/qrencode-libs-3.4.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/qrencode-libs-3.4.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/qrencode-libs-3.4.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/qrencode-libs-3.4.1/README
/usr/share/doc/qrencode-libs-3.4.1/TODO

References

qrencode-libs.i686 website

Summary

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