How To Install libieee1284.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libieee1284.x86_64 is A library for interfacing IEEE 1284-compatible devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libieee1284.x86_64`

The libieee1284 library is for communicating with parallel port devices.

We can use yum to install libieee1284.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libieee1284.x86_64.

Install libieee1284.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 libieee1284.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libieee1284.x86_64

How To Uninstall libieee1284.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libieee1284.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libieee1284.x86_64

libieee1284.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/libieee1284_test
/usr/lib64/libieee1284.so.3
/usr/lib64/libieee1284.so.3.2.2
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/README
/usr/share/doc/libieee1284-0.2.11/TODO

References

libieee1284.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.