How To Install uuid.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. uuid.i686 is Universally Unique Identifier library

Introduction

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

What is `uuid.i686`

OSSP uuid is a ISO-C and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578 Unique Identifier (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and node based), version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4 (random number based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional API bindings are provided for the languages ISO-C++ exists for the ISO-C DCE-1.1 and Perl Data

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

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

sudo yum -y install uuid.i686

How To Uninstall uuid.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove uuid.i686

uuid.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/uuid
/usr/lib/libossp-uuid.so.16
/usr/lib/libossp-uuid.so.16.0.22
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/PORTING
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/README
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/SEEALSO
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/TODO
/usr/share/doc/uuid-1.6.2/USERS
/usr/share/man/man1/uuid.1.gz

References

uuid.i686 website

Summary

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