How To Install parted.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install parted.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. parted.i686 is The GNU disk partition manipulation program

Introduction

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

What is `parted.i686`

The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

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

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

sudo yum -y install parted.i686

How To Uninstall parted.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove parted.i686

parted.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/lib/libparted-fs-resize.so
/lib/libparted-fs-resize.so.0
/lib/libparted-fs-resize.so.0.0.0
/lib/libparted.so.2
/lib/libparted.so.2.0.0
/sbin/parted
/sbin/partprobe
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/API
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/FAT
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/README
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.1/TODO
/usr/share/info/parted.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partprobe.8.gz

References

parted.i686 website

Summary

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