How To Install libnl3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnl3.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libnl3.i686 is Convenience library for kernel netlink sockets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnl3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libnl3.i686`

This package contains a convenience library to simplify using the Linux kernel’s netlink sockets interface for network manipulation

We can use yum to install libnl3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnl3.i686.

Install libnl3.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 libnl3.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libnl3.i686

How To Uninstall libnl3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libnl3.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libnl3.i686

libnl3.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libnl
/etc/libnl/classid
/etc/libnl/pktloc
/usr/lib/libnl-3.so.200
/usr/lib/libnl-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib/libnl-genl-3.so.200
/usr/lib/libnl-genl-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib/libnl-idiag-3.so.200
/usr/lib/libnl-idiag-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib/libnl-nf-3.so.200
/usr/lib/libnl-nf-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib/libnl-route-3.so.200
/usr/lib/libnl-route-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/lib/libnl-xfrm-3.so.200
/usr/lib/libnl-xfrm-3.so.200.23.0
/usr/share/doc/libnl3-3.2.28
/usr/share/doc/libnl3-3.2.28/COPYING

References

libnl3.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnl3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.