How To Install libproxy.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libproxy.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libproxy.i686 is A library handling all the details of proxy configuration

Introduction

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

What is libproxy.i686

libproxy offers the following features * extremely small core footprint (< 35K) * no external dependencies within libproxy core (libproxy plugins may have dependencies) * only 3 functions in the stable external API * dynamic adjustment to changing network topology * a standard way of dealing with proxy settings across all scenarios * a sublime sense of joy and accomplishment

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

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

sudo yum -y install libproxy.i686

How To Uninstall libproxy.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libproxy.i686

libproxy.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libproxy
/usr/lib/libproxy.so.1
/usr/lib/libproxy.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libproxy/0.4.11
/usr/lib/libproxy/0.4.11/modules
/usr/share/doc/libproxy-0.4.11
/usr/share/doc/libproxy-0.4.11/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libproxy-0.4.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libproxy-0.4.11/README

References

Summary

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