How To Install libwbclient.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwbclient.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libwbclient.i686 is The winbind client library

Introduction

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

What is `libwbclient.i686`

The libwbclient package contains the winbind client library from the Samba suite.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libwbclient.i686

How To Uninstall libwbclient.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libwbclient.i686

libwbclient.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/samba/libwinbind-client-samba4.so
/usr/lib/samba/wbclient/libwbclient.so.0
/usr/lib/samba/wbclient/libwbclient.so.0.15

References

libwbclient.i686 website

Summary

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