How To Install libexif.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libexif.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libexif.i686 is Library for extracting extra information from image files

Introduction

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

What is `libexif.i686`

Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libexif.i686

How To Uninstall libexif.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libexif.i686

libexif.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libexif.so.12
/usr/lib/libexif.so.12.3.4
/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22
/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22/README
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo

References

libexif.i686 website

Summary

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