How To Install libunistring.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunistring.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libunistring.i686 is GNU Unicode string library

Introduction

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

What is `libunistring.i686`

This portable C library implements Unicode string types in three flavours character processing (names, classifications, properties) and functions for string processing (iteration, formatted output, width, word breaks, line breaks, normalization, case folding and regular expressions).

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

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

sudo yum -y install libunistring.i686

How To Uninstall libunistring.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libunistring.i686

libunistring.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libunistring.so.0
/usr/lib/libunistring.so.0.1.2
/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.3
/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.3/README

References

libunistring.i686 website

Summary

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