How To Install libgexiv2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgexiv2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgexiv2.x86_64 is Gexiv2 is a GObject-based wrapper around the Exiv2 library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgexiv2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libgexiv2.x86_64`

libgexiv2 is a GObject-based wrapper around the Exiv2 library. It makes the basic features of Exiv2 available to GNOME applications.

We can use yum to install libgexiv2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgexiv2.x86_64.

Install libgexiv2.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 libgexiv2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgexiv2.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgexiv2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libgexiv2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libgexiv2.x86_64

libgexiv2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GExiv2-0.10.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgexiv2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgexiv2.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgexiv2-0.10.4
/usr/share/doc/libgexiv2-0.10.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgexiv2-0.10.4/README
/usr/share/doc/libgexiv2-0.10.4/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libgexiv2-0.10.4
/usr/share/licenses/libgexiv2-0.10.4/COPYING

References

libgexiv2.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgexiv2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.