How To Install dvgrab.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dvgrab.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dvgrab.x86_64 is Utility to capture video from a DV camera

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dvgrab.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dvgrab.x86_64`

The dvgrab utility will capture digital video from a DV source on the firewire (IEEE-1394) bus.

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

Install dvgrab.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 dvgrab.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dvgrab.x86_64

How To Uninstall dvgrab.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dvgrab.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dvgrab.x86_64

dvgrab.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/dvgrab
/usr/share/doc/dvgrab-3.5
/usr/share/doc/dvgrab-3.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dvgrab-3.5/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/dvgrab-3.5/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/dvgrab-3.5/README
/usr/share/man/man1/dvgrab.1.gz

References

dvgrab.x86_64 website

Summary

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