How To Install libgfortran.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgfortran.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libgfortran.i686 is Fortran runtime

Introduction

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

What is `libgfortran.i686`

This package contains Fortran shared library which is needed to run Fortran dynamically linked programs.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgfortran.i686

How To Uninstall libgfortran.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgfortran.i686

libgfortran.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.4
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.4.0.0

References

libgfortran.i686 website

Summary

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