How To Install libiec61883.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiec61883.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libiec61883.x86_64 is Streaming library for IEEE1394

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiec61883.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libiec61883.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libiec61883.x86_64.

Install libiec61883.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 libiec61883.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libiec61883.x86_64

How To Uninstall libiec61883.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libiec61883.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libiec61883.x86_64

libiec61883.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libiec61883.so.0
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiec61883.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.