How To Install libmsn.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmsn.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libmsn.i686 is Library for connecting to the MSN Messenger service

Introduction

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

What is `libmsn.i686`

Libmsn is a reusable, open-source, fully documented library for connecting to the MSN Messenger service.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmsn.i686

How To Uninstall libmsn.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmsn.i686

libmsn.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/msntest
/usr/lib/libmsn.so.0.3
/usr/lib/libmsn.so.0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libmsn-4.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libmsn-4.2.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libmsn-4.2.1/README
/usr/share/doc/libmsn-4.2.1/THANKS

References

libmsn.i686 website

Summary

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