How To Install libibcm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libibcm.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libibcm.i686 is Userspace InfiniBand Connection Manager

Introduction

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

What is `libibcm.i686`

libibcm provides a userspace library that handles the majority of the low level work required to open an RDMA connection between two machines.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libibcm.i686

How To Uninstall libibcm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libibcm.i686

libibcm.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libibcm.so.1
/usr/lib/libibcm.so.1.0.15
/usr/share/doc/rdma-core-15/libibcm.md

References

libibcm.i686 website

Summary

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