How To Install libmetalink.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetalink.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libmetalink.i686 is Metalink library written in C

Introduction

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

What is `libmetalink.i686`

libmetalink is a Metalink C library. It adds Metalink functionality such as parsing Metalink XML files to programs written in C.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmetalink.i686

How To Uninstall libmetalink.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmetalink.i686

libmetalink.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libmetalink.so.3
/usr/lib/libmetalink.so.3.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libmetalink-0.1.3
/usr/share/doc/libmetalink-0.1.3/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmetalink-0.1.3
/usr/share/licenses/libmetalink-0.1.3/COPYING

References

libmetalink.i686 website

Summary

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