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

In this tutorial we learn how to install imsettings-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. imsettings-libs.i686 is Libraries for imsettings

Introduction

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

What is `imsettings-libs.i686`

IMSettings is a framework that delivers Input Method settings and applies the changes so they take effect immediately without any need to restart applications or the desktop. This package contains the shared library for imsettings.

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

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

sudo yum -y install imsettings-libs.i686

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

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

sudo yum remove imsettings-libs.i686

imsettings-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libimsettings.so.5
/usr/lib/libimsettings.so.5.4.1
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-libs-1.6.3
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-libs-1.6.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-libs-1.6.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-libs-1.6.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-libs-1.6.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-libs-1.6.3/README

References

imsettings-libs.i686 website

Summary

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