How To Install libburn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libburn.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libburn.x86_64 is Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs

Introduction

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

What is `libburn.x86_64`

Libburn is an open-source library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs. For now this means only CD-R and CD-RW. The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which together strive to be a usable foundation for application development. These are libraries, language bindings, and middleware binaries which emulate classical (and valuable) Linux tools.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libburn.x86_64

How To Uninstall libburn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libburn.x86_64

libburn.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libburn.so.4
/usr/lib64/libburn.so.4.81.0
/usr/share/doc/libburn-1.2.8
/usr/share/doc/libburn-1.2.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libburn-1.2.8/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libburn-1.2.8/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libburn-1.2.8/README

References

libburn.x86_64 website

Summary

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