How To Install libnfnetlink.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnfnetlink.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libnfnetlink.i686 is Netfilter netlink userspace library

Introduction

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

What is `libnfnetlink.i686`

libnfnetlink is a userspace library that provides some low-level nfnetlink handling functions. It is used as a foundation for other, netfilter subsystem specific libraries such as libnfnetlink_conntrack, libnfnetlink_log and libnfnetlink_queue.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libnfnetlink.i686

How To Uninstall libnfnetlink.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libnfnetlink.i686

libnfnetlink.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libnfnetlink.so.0
/usr/lib/libnfnetlink.so.0.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libnfnetlink-1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libnfnetlink-1.0.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libnfnetlink-1.0.1/README

References

libnfnetlink.i686 website

Summary

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