How To Install samba-common-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-common-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. samba-common-libs.i686 is Libraries used by both Samba servers and clients

Introduction

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

What is `samba-common-libs.i686`

The samba-common-libs package contains internal libraries needed by the SMB/CIFS clients.

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

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

sudo yum -y install samba-common-libs.i686

How To Uninstall samba-common-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove samba-common-libs.i686

samba-common-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/samba/ldb
/usr/lib/samba/libcluster-samba4.so
/usr/lib/samba/libcmdline-contexts-samba4.so
/usr/lib/samba/libpopt-samba3-cmdline-samba4.so
/usr/lib/samba/libpopt-samba3-samba4.so
/usr/lib/samba/pdb
/usr/lib/samba/pdb/ldapsam.so
/usr/lib/samba/pdb/smbpasswd.so
/usr/lib/samba/pdb/tdbsam.so

References

samba-common-libs.i686 website

Summary

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