How To Install libiscsi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiscsi.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libiscsi.i686 is iSCSI client library

Introduction

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

What is `libiscsi.i686`

libiscsi is a library for attaching to iSCSI resources across a network.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libiscsi.i686

How To Uninstall libiscsi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libiscsi.i686

libiscsi.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/libiscsi-i386.conf
/usr/lib/iscsi/libiscsi.so.2
/usr/lib/iscsi/libiscsi.so.2.0.10900
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-1.9.0
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-1.9.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-1.9.0/LICENCE-LGPL-2.1.txt
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-1.9.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi-1.9.0/TODO

References

libiscsi.i686 website

Summary

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