How To Install unique3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install unique3.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. unique3.i686 is Single instance support for applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unique3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `unique3.i686`

Unique is a library for writing single instance applications, that is applications that are run once and every further call to the same binary either exits immediately or sends a command to the running instance. This version of unique works with GTK+ 3.

We can use yum to install unique3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unique3.i686.

Install unique3.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 unique3.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unique3.i686

How To Uninstall unique3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the unique3.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove unique3.i686

unique3.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libunique-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libunique-3.0.so.0.0.2
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2/README

References

unique3.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install unique3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.