How To Install libusb.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libusb.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libusb.i686 is A library which allows userspace access to USB devices

Introduction

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

What is libusb.i686

This package provides a way for applications to access USB devices. Legacy libusb-0.1 is no longer supported by upstream, therefore content of this package was replaced by libusb-compat. It provides compatibility layer allowing applications written for libusb-0.1 to work with libusb-1.0.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libusb.i686

How To Uninstall libusb.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libusb.i686

libusb.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4
/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4

References

Summary

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