How To Install ilmbase.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ilmbase.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ilmbase.x86_64 is Abstraction/convenience libraries

Introduction

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

What is `ilmbase.x86_64`

Half is a class that encapsulates the ilm 16-bit floating-point format. IlmThread is a thread abstraction library for use with OpenEXR and other software packages. Imath implements 2D and 3D vectors, 3x3 and 4x4 matrices, quaternions and other useful 2D and 3D math functions. Iex is an exception-handling library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install ilmbase.x86_64

How To Uninstall ilmbase.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove ilmbase.x86_64

ilmbase.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libHalf.so.6
/usr/lib64/libHalf.so.6.0.0
/usr/lib64/libIex.so.6
/usr/lib64/libIex.so.6.0.0
/usr/lib64/libIexMath.so.6
/usr/lib64/libIexMath.so.6.0.0
/usr/lib64/libIlmThread.so.6
/usr/lib64/libIlmThread.so.6.0.0
/usr/lib64/libImath.so.6
/usr/lib64/libImath.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase-1.0.3
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase-1.0.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase-1.0.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase-1.0.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase-1.0.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ilmbase-1.0.3/README

References

ilmbase.x86_64 website

Summary

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