How To Install libss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libss.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libss.i686 is Command line interface parsing library

Introduction

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

What is `libss.i686`

This is libss, a command line interface parsing library, part of e2fsprogs. This package includes a tool that parses a command table to generate a simple command-line interface parser, the include files needed to compile and use it. It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libss.i686

How To Uninstall libss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libss.i686

libss.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libss.so.2
/usr/lib/libss.so.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libss-1.42.9
/usr/share/doc/libss-1.42.9/COPYING

References

libss.i686 website

Summary

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