How To Install iniparser.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install iniparser.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. iniparser.i686 is C library for parsing “INI-style” files

Introduction

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

What is `iniparser.i686`

iniParser is an ANSI C library to parse “INI-style” files, often used to hold application configuration information.

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

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

sudo yum -y install iniparser.i686

How To Uninstall iniparser.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove iniparser.i686

iniparser.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libiniparser.so.0
/usr/share/doc/iniparser-3.1
/usr/share/doc/iniparser-3.1/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iniparser-3.1/README

References

iniparser.i686 website

Summary

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