How To Install libmspack.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmspack.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libmspack.i686 is Library for CAB and related files compression and decompression

Introduction

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

What is `libmspack.i686`

The purpose of libmspack is to provide both compression and decompression of some loosely related file formats used by Microsoft.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmspack.i686

How To Uninstall libmspack.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmspack.i686

libmspack.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libmspack.so.0
/usr/lib/libmspack.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/README
/usr/share/doc/libmspack-0.5/TODO

References

libmspack.i686 website

Summary

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