How To Install libieee1284.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libieee1284.i686 is A library for interfacing IEEE 1284-compatible devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libieee1284.i686`

The libieee1284 library is for communicating with parallel port devices.

We can use yum to install libieee1284.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libieee1284.i686.

Install libieee1284.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 libieee1284.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libieee1284.i686

How To Uninstall libieee1284.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libieee1284.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libieee1284.i686

libieee1284.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/libieee1284_test
/usr/lib/libieee1284.so.3
/usr/lib/libieee1284.so.3.2.2
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/README
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/TODO

References

libieee1284.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.