How To Install zziplib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install zziplib.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. zziplib.i686 is Lightweight library to easily extract data from zip files

Introduction

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

What is zziplib.i686

The zziplib library is intentionally lightweight, it offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a single zip file. Applications can bundle files into a single zip archive and access them. The implementation is based only on the (free) subset of compression with the zlib algorithm which is actually used by the zip/unzip tools.

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

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

sudo yum -y install zziplib.i686

How To Uninstall zziplib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove zziplib.i686

zziplib.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.10
/usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.11
/usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.12
/usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.13
/usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.13.0.62
/usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.10
/usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.11
/usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.12
/usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.13
/usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.13.0.62
/usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.10
/usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.11
/usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.12
/usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.13
/usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.13.0.62
/usr/lib/libzzipwrap-0.so.13
/usr/lib/libzzipwrap-0.so.13.0.62
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/COPYING.MPL
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/COPYING.ZLIB
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/README
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/TODO

References

Summary

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