How To Install SDL2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install SDL2.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. SDL2.i686 is Cross-platform multimedia library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install SDL2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `SDL2.i686`

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio device.

We can use yum to install SDL2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install SDL2.i686.

Install SDL2.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 SDL2.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install SDL2.i686

How To Uninstall SDL2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the SDL2.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove SDL2.i686

SDL2.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.10.0
/usr/share/doc/SDL2-2.0.10
/usr/share/doc/SDL2-2.0.10/BUGS.txt
/usr/share/doc/SDL2-2.0.10/CREDITS.txt
/usr/share/doc/SDL2-2.0.10/README-SDL.txt
/usr/share/licenses/SDL2-2.0.10
/usr/share/licenses/SDL2-2.0.10/COPYING.txt

References

SDL2.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install SDL2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.