How To Install libimobiledevice.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libimobiledevice.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libimobiledevice.i686 is Library for connecting to mobile devices

Introduction

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

What is `libimobiledevice.i686`

libimobiledevice is a library for connecting to mobile devices including phones and music players

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

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

sudo yum -y install libimobiledevice.i686

How To Uninstall libimobiledevice.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libimobiledevice.i686

libimobiledevice.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libimobiledevice.so.6
/usr/lib/libimobiledevice.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice-1.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice-1.2.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice-1.2.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/libimobiledevice-1.2.0
/usr/share/licenses/libimobiledevice-1.2.0/COPYING.LESSER

References

libimobiledevice.i686 website

Summary

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