How To Install librbd1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install librbd1.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. librbd1.i686 is RADOS block device client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librbd1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `librbd1.i686`

RBD is a block device striped across multiple distributed objects in RADOS, a reliable, autonomic distributed object storage cluster developed as part of the Ceph distributed storage system. This is a shared library allowing applications to manage these block devices.

We can use yum to install librbd1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install librbd1.i686.

Install librbd1.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 librbd1.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librbd1.i686

How To Uninstall librbd1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the librbd1.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove librbd1.i686

librbd1.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/librbd.so.1
/usr/lib/librbd.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-rbd.rules

References

librbd1.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librbd1.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.