How To Install libsmartcols.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmartcols.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libsmartcols.i686 is Formatting library for ls-like programs.

Introduction

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

What is `libsmartcols.i686`

This is library for ls-like terminal programs, part of util-linux.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libsmartcols.i686

How To Uninstall libsmartcols.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libsmartcols.i686

libsmartcols.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libsmartcols.so.1
/usr/lib/libsmartcols.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/licenses/libsmartcols-2.30.2
/usr/share/licenses/libsmartcols-2.30.2/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libsmartcols-2.30.2/COPYING.LGPLv2.1

References

libsmartcols.i686 website

Summary

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