How To Install libiec61883.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiec61883.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libiec61883.i686 is Streaming library for IEEE1394

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiec61883.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libiec61883.i686`

The libiec61883 library provides an higher level API for streaming DV, MPEG-2 and audio over IEEE1394. Based on the libraw1394 isochronous functionality, this library acts as a filter that accepts DV-frames, MPEG-2 frames or audio samples from the application and breaks these down to isochronous packets, which are transmitted using libraw1394.

We can use yum to install libiec61883.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libiec61883.i686.

Install libiec61883.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 libiec61883.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libiec61883.i686

How To Uninstall libiec61883.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libiec61883.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libiec61883.i686

libiec61883.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libiec61883.so.0
/usr/lib/libiec61883.so.0.1.1
/usr/share/doc/libiec61883-1.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libiec61883-1.2.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libiec61883-1.2.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libiec61883-1.2.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libiec61883-1.2.0/README

References

libiec61883.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiec61883.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.