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

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpm-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. rpm-libs.i686 is Libraries for manipulating RPM packages

Introduction

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

What is `rpm-libs.i686`

This package contains the RPM shared libraries.

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

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

sudo yum -y install rpm-libs.i686

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

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

sudo yum remove rpm-libs.i686

rpm-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/librpm.so.3
/usr/lib/librpm.so.3.2.2
/usr/lib/librpmio.so.3
/usr/lib/librpmio.so.3.2.2

References

rpm-libs.i686 website

Summary

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