How To Install qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 is Qt5 - WebChannel component

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `qt5-qtwebchannel.i686`

The Qt WebChannel module provides a library for seamless integration of C++ and QML applications with HTML/JavaScript clients. Any QObject can be published to remote clients, where its public API becomes available.

We can use yum to install qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qt5-qtwebchannel.i686.

Install qt5-qtwebchannel.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 qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qt5-qtwebchannel.i686

How To Uninstall qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove qt5-qtwebchannel.i686

qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libQt5WebChannel.so.5
/usr/lib/libQt5WebChannel.so.5.9
/usr/lib/libQt5WebChannel.so.5.9.2
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/QtWebChannel
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/QtWebChannel/libdeclarative_webchannel.so
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/QtWebChannel/plugins.qmltypes
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/QtWebChannel/qmldir
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtwebchannel-5.9.2
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtwebchannel-5.9.2/LICENSE.GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtwebchannel-5.9.2/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtwebchannel-5.9.2/LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtwebchannel-5.9.2/LICENSE.LGPL3

References

qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-qtwebchannel.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.