How To Install libcanberra.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcanberra.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libcanberra.i686 is Portable Sound Event Library

Introduction

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

What is `libcanberra.i686`

A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification (http

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

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

sudo yum -y install libcanberra.i686

How To Uninstall libcanberra.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libcanberra.i686

libcanberra.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/canberra-boot
/usr/lib/libcanberra-0.30
/usr/lib/libcanberra-0.30/libcanberra-alsa.so
/usr/lib/libcanberra-0.30/libcanberra-gstreamer.so
/usr/lib/libcanberra-0.30/libcanberra-multi.so
/usr/lib/libcanberra-0.30/libcanberra-null.so
/usr/lib/libcanberra-0.30/libcanberra-pulse.so
/usr/lib/libcanberra.so.0
/usr/lib/libcanberra.so.0.2.5
/usr/lib/systemd/system/canberra-system-bootup.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/canberra-system-shutdown-reboot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/canberra-system-shutdown.service
/usr/share/doc/libcanberra-0.30
/usr/share/doc/libcanberra-0.30/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/libcanberra-0.30/README

References

libcanberra.i686 website

Summary

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