How To Install xerces-c.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xerces-c.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. xerces-c.i686 is Validating XML Parser

Introduction

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

What is `xerces-c.i686`

Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. Xerces-C makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. Xerces-C is faithful to the XML 1.0 recommendation and associated standards Edition), DOM Level 1, 2, 3 Core, DOM Level 2.0 Traversal and Range, DOM Level 3.0 Load and Save, SAX 1.0 and SAX 2.0, Namespaces in XML, Namespaces in XML 1.1, XML Schema, XML Inclusions).

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

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

sudo yum -y install xerces-c.i686

How To Uninstall xerces-c.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove xerces-c.i686

xerces-c.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libxerces-c-3.1.so
/usr/share/doc/xerces-c-3.1.1
/usr/share/doc/xerces-c-3.1.1/LICENSE

References

xerces-c.i686 website

Summary

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