How To Install farstream.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install farstream.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. farstream.i686 is Libraries for videoconferencing

Introduction

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

What is `farstream.i686`

farstream is a collection of GStreamer modules and libraries for videoconferencing.

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

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

sudo yum -y install farstream.i686

How To Uninstall farstream.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove farstream.i686

farstream.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/farstream-0.1
/usr/lib/farstream-0.1/libmulticast-transmitter.so
/usr/lib/farstream-0.1/libnice-transmitter.so
/usr/lib/farstream-0.1/librawudp-transmitter.so
/usr/lib/farstream-0.1/libshm-transmitter.so
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Farstream-0.1.typelib
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libfsfunnel.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libfsmsnconference.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libfsrawconference.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libfsrtcpfilter.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libfsrtpconference.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libfsvideoanyrate.so
/usr/lib/libfarstream-0.1.so.0
/usr/lib/libfarstream-0.1.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/farstream-0.1.2
/usr/share/doc/farstream-0.1.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/farstream-0.1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/farstream-0.1.2/NEWS
/usr/share/farstream
/usr/share/farstream/0.1
/usr/share/farstream/0.1/fsrawconference
/usr/share/farstream/0.1/fsrawconference/default-element-properties
/usr/share/farstream/0.1/fsrtpconference
/usr/share/farstream/0.1/fsrtpconference/default-codec-preferences
/usr/share/farstream/0.1/fsrtpconference/default-element-properties

References

farstream.i686 website

Summary

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