How To Install multilib-rpm-config.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install multilib-rpm-config.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. multilib-rpm-config.noarch is Multilib packaging helpers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install multilib-rpm-config.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `multilib-rpm-config.noarch`

Set of tools (shell scripts, RPM macro files) to help with multilib packaging issues.

We can use yum to install multilib-rpm-config.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install multilib-rpm-config.noarch.

Install multilib-rpm-config.noarch 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 multilib-rpm-config.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install multilib-rpm-config.noarch

How To Uninstall multilib-rpm-config.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the multilib-rpm-config.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove multilib-rpm-config.noarch

multilib-rpm-config.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.multilib
/usr/libexec/multilib-fix
/usr/libexec/multilib-info
/usr/share/doc/multilib-rpm-config-1
/usr/share/doc/multilib-rpm-config-1/README
/usr/share/licenses/multilib-rpm-config-1
/usr/share/licenses/multilib-rpm-config-1/COPYING

References

multilib-rpm-config.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install multilib-rpm-config.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.