How To Install libsysfs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsysfs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libsysfs.i686 is Shared library for interfacing with sysfs

Introduction

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

What is `libsysfs.i686`

Library used in handling linux kernel sysfs mounts and their various files.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libsysfs.i686

How To Uninstall libsysfs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libsysfs.i686

libsysfs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/lib/libsysfs.so.2
/lib/libsysfs.so.2.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/libsysfs.txt

References

libsysfs.i686 website

Summary

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