How To Install libcap.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libcap.i686 is Library for getting and setting POSIX.1e capabilities

Introduction

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

What is `libcap.i686`

libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libcap.i686

How To Uninstall libcap.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libcap.i686

libcap.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libcap.so.2
/usr/lib/libcap.so.2.54
/usr/lib/libpsx.so.2
/usr/lib/libpsx.so.2.54
/usr/lib/security/pam_cap.so
/usr/sbin/capsh
/usr/sbin/getcap
/usr/sbin/getpcaps
/usr/sbin/setcap
/usr/share/doc/libcap-2.54
/usr/share/doc/libcap-2.54/capability.notes
/usr/share/licenses/libcap-2.54
/usr/share/licenses/libcap-2.54/License
/usr/share/man/man1/capsh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/getcap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/getpcaps.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/setcap.8.gz

References

libcap.i686 website

Summary

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