How To Install uuid-c++.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-c++.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. uuid-c++.i686 is C++ support for Universally Unique Identifier library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-c++.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `uuid-c++.i686`

C++ libraries for OSSP uuid.

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

Install uuid-c++.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 uuid-c++.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uuid-c++.i686

How To Uninstall uuid-c++.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the uuid-c++.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove uuid-c++.i686

uuid-c++.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libossp-uuid++.so.16
/usr/lib/libossp-uuid++.so.16.0.22

References

uuid-c++.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-c++.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.