How To Install libgcab1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgcab1.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libgcab1.i686 is Library to create Cabinet archives

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgcab1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libgcab1.i686`

libgcab is a library to manipulate Cabinet archive using GIO/GObject.

We can use yum to install libgcab1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgcab1.i686.

Install libgcab1.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 libgcab1.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgcab1.i686

How To Uninstall libgcab1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libgcab1.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libgcab1.i686

libgcab1.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GCab-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgcab-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgcab-1.0.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgcab1-0.7
/usr/share/doc/libgcab1-0.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgcab1-0.7/NEWS
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gcab.mo

References

libgcab1.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgcab1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.