How To Install OpenIPMI-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install OpenIPMI-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. OpenIPMI-libs.i686 is The OpenIPMI runtime libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install OpenIPMI-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `OpenIPMI-libs.i686`

The OpenIPMI-libs package contains the runtime libraries for shared binaries and applications.

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

Install OpenIPMI-libs.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 OpenIPMI-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install OpenIPMI-libs.i686

How To Uninstall OpenIPMI-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the OpenIPMI-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove OpenIPMI-libs.i686

OpenIPMI-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libIPMIlanserv.so.0
/usr/lib/libIPMIlanserv.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMI.so.0
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMI.so.0.0.5
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIcmdlang.so.0
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIcmdlang.so.0.0.5
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIglib.so.0
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIglib.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIposix.so.0
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIposix.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIpthread.so.0
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIpthread.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIui.so.1
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIui.so.1.0.1
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIutils.so.0
/usr/lib/libOpenIPMIutils.so.0.0.1

References

OpenIPMI-libs.i686 website

Summary

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