How To Install rarian.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rarian.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. rarian.i686 is Documentation meta-data library

Introduction

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

What is `rarian.i686`

Rarian is a documentation meta-data library that allows access to documents, man pages and info pages. It was designed as a replacement for scrollkeeper.

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

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

sudo yum -y install rarian.i686

How To Uninstall rarian.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove rarian.i686

rarian.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/rarian-example
/usr/lib/librarian.so.0
/usr/lib/librarian.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/COPYING.UTILS
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/README
/usr/share/help
/usr/share/help/rarian.document
/usr/share/librarian
/usr/share/librarian/Templates
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual
/usr/share/librarian/manual/help-spec-0.2.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/index.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-lib.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-mdf.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-skcompat.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/rarian-sk-cl.xml

References

rarian.i686 website

Summary

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