How To Install libatasmart.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libatasmart.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libatasmart.i686 is ATA S.M.A.R.T. Disk Health Monitoring Library

Introduction

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

What is `libatasmart.i686`

A small and lightweight parser library for ATA S.M.A.R.T. hard disk health monitoring.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libatasmart.i686

How To Uninstall libatasmart.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libatasmart.i686

libatasmart.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libatasmart.so.4
/usr/lib/libatasmart.so.4.0.5
/usr/sbin/skdump
/usr/sbin/sktest
/usr/share/doc/libatasmart-0.19
/usr/share/doc/libatasmart-0.19/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/libatasmart-0.19/README

References

libatasmart.i686 website

Summary

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