How To Install liboauth.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboauth.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. liboauth.i686 is OAuth library functions

Introduction

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

What is `liboauth.i686`

liboauth is a collection of POSIX-c functions implementing the OAuth Core RFC 5849 standard. liboauth provides functions to escape and encode parameters according to OAuth specification and offers high-level functionality to sign requests or verify OAuth signatures as well as perform HTTP requests.

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

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

sudo yum -y install liboauth.i686

How To Uninstall liboauth.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove liboauth.i686

liboauth.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/liboauth.so.0
/usr/lib/liboauth.so.0.8.4
/usr/share/doc/liboauth-0.9.7
/usr/share/doc/liboauth-0.9.7/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/liboauth-0.9.7/COPYING.MIT
/usr/share/doc/liboauth-0.9.7/README

References

liboauth.i686 website

Summary

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