How To Install libgomp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgomp.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libgomp.i686 is GCC OpenMP v4.5 shared support library

Introduction

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

What is `libgomp.i686`

This package contains GCC shared support library which is needed for OpenMP v4.5 support.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgomp.i686

How To Uninstall libgomp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgomp.i686

libgomp.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libgomp.so.1
/usr/lib/libgomp.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgomp-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libgomp-7.3.1/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/doc/libgomp-7.3.1/ChangeLog.graphite.bz2
/usr/share/info/libgomp.info.gz

References

libgomp.i686 website

Summary

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