How To Install compat-libtiff3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-libtiff3.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. compat-libtiff3.x86_64 is Compatibility package for libtiff 3

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-libtiff3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `compat-libtiff3.x86_64`

The libtiff3 package provides libtiff 3, an older version of libtiff library for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. This version should be used only if you are unable to use the current version of libtiff.

We can use yum to install compat-libtiff3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install compat-libtiff3.x86_64.

Install compat-libtiff3.x86_64 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 compat-libtiff3.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install compat-libtiff3.x86_64

How To Uninstall compat-libtiff3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the compat-libtiff3.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove compat-libtiff3.x86_64

compat-libtiff3.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libtiff.so.3
/usr/lib64/libtiff.so.3.9.4
/usr/lib64/libtiffxx.so.3
/usr/lib64/libtiffxx.so.3.9.4

References

compat-libtiff3.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-libtiff3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.