How To Install libblkid.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblkid.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libblkid.i686 is Block device ID library

Introduction

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

What is `libblkid.i686`

This is block device identification library, part of util-linux.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libblkid.i686

How To Uninstall libblkid.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libblkid.i686

libblkid.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libblkid.so.1
/usr/lib/libblkid.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-2.30.2
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-2.30.2/COPYING

References

libblkid.i686 website

Summary

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