How To Install geocode-glib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install geocode-glib.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. geocode-glib.i686 is Geocoding helper library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geocode-glib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is geocode-glib.i686

geocode-glib is a convenience library for the geocoding (finding longitude, and latitude from an address) and reverse geocoding (finding an address from coordinates). It uses Nominatim service to achieve that. It also caches (reverse-)geocoding requests for faster results and to avoid unnecessary server load.

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

Install geocode-glib.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 geocode-glib.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geocode-glib.i686

How To Uninstall geocode-glib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the geocode-glib.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove geocode-glib.i686

geocode-glib.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GeocodeGlib-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgeocode-glib.so.0
/usr/lib/libgeocode-glib.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/geocode-glib-3.20.1
/usr/share/doc/geocode-glib-3.20.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geocode-glib-3.20.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/geocode-glib-3.20.1/README
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-airport.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-bar.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-building.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-bus-stop.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-car.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-light-rail-station.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-marker.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-place-of-worship.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-railway-station.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-restaurant.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-school.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/poi-town.svg
/usr/share/licenses/geocode-glib-3.20.1
/usr/share/licenses/geocode-glib-3.20.1/COPYING.LIB

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Summary

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