How To Install libnftnl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnftnl.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libnftnl.i686 is Library for low-level interaction with nftables Netlink’s API over

Introduction

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

What is `libnftnl.i686`

A library for low-level interaction with nftables Netlink’s API over libmnl.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libnftnl.i686

How To Uninstall libnftnl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libnftnl.i686

libnftnl.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libnftnl.so.11
/usr/lib/libnftnl.so.11.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libnftnl-1.1.5
/usr/share/doc/libnftnl-1.1.5/COPYING

References

libnftnl.i686 website

Summary

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