How To Install qt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. qt.i686 is Qt toolkit

Introduction

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

What is `qt.i686`

Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. This package contains base tools, like string, xml, and network handling.

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

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

sudo yum -y install qt.i686

How To Uninstall qt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove qt.i686

qt.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/Trolltech.conf
/usr/bin/qdbus
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.8
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.8.5
/usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4
/usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4.8
/usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4.8.5
/usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4
/usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4.8
/usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4.8.5
/usr/lib/libQtScript.so.4
/usr/lib/libQtScript.so.4.8
/usr/lib/libQtScript.so.4.8.5
/usr/lib/libQtSql.so.4
/usr/lib/libQtSql.so.4.8
/usr/lib/libQtSql.so.4.8.5
/usr/lib/libQtTest.so.4
/usr/lib/libQtTest.so.4.8
/usr/lib/libQtTest.so.4.8.5
/usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4
/usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4.8
/usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4.8.5
/usr/lib/libQtXmlPatterns.so.4
/usr/lib/libQtXmlPatterns.so.4.8
/usr/lib/libQtXmlPatterns.so.4.8.5
/usr/lib/qt4
/usr/lib/qt4/bin
/usr/lib/qt4/bin/qdbus
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/danish.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/dutch.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/finnish.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/french.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/german.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/hungarian.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/italian.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/japanese.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/norwegian.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/polish.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/russian.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/spanish.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/phrasebooks/swedish.qph
/usr/lib/qt4/plugins
/usr/lib/qt4/plugins/crypto
/usr/lib/qt4/plugins/sqldrivers
/usr/lib/qt4/plugins/sqldrivers/libqsqlite.so
/usr/share/doc/qt-4.8.5
/usr/share/doc/qt-4.8.5/LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt
/usr/share/doc/qt-4.8.5/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/doc/qt-4.8.5/LICENSE.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/qt-4.8.5/README
/usr/share/doc/qt4
/usr/share/doc/qt4/html
/usr/share/doc/qt4/qch
/usr/share/doc/qt4/src
/usr/share/qt4
/usr/share/qt4/translations
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_ar.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_cs.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_da.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_de.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_es.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_fa.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_fr.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_gl.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_he.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_hu.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_ja.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_ko.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_lt.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_pl.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_pt.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_ru.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_sk.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_sl.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_sv.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_uk.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_zh_CN.qm
/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_zh_TW.qm

References

qt.i686 website

Summary

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