How To Install evince-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. evince-libs.i686 is Libraries for the evince document viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `evince-libs.i686`

This package contains shared libraries needed for evince

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

Install evince-libs.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 evince-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install evince-libs.i686

How To Uninstall evince-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the evince-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove evince-libs.i686

evince-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/evince
/usr/lib/evince/4
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/comicsdocument.evince-backend
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libcomicsdocument.so
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libpdfdocument.so
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libpsdocument.so
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libtiffdocument.so
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libxpsdocument.so
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/pdfdocument.evince-backend
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/psdocument.evince-backend
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/tiffdocument.evince-backend
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/xpsdocument.evince-backend
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/EvinceDocument-3.0.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/EvinceView-3.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libevdocument3.so.4
/usr/lib/libevdocument3.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib/libevview3.so.3
/usr/lib/libevview3.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/evince-libs-3.28.2
/usr/share/doc/evince-libs-3.28.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/evince-libs-3.28.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/evince-libs-3.28.2/README
/usr/share/licenses/evince-libs-3.28.2
/usr/share/licenses/evince-libs-3.28.2/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/evince-comicsdocument.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/metainfo/evince-pdfdocument.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/metainfo/evince-psdocument.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/metainfo/evince-tiffdocument.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/metainfo/evince-xpsdocument.metainfo.xml

References

evince-libs.i686 website

Summary

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