How To Install libiptcdata.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiptcdata.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libiptcdata.i686 is IPTC tag library

Introduction

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

What is `libiptcdata.i686`

libiptcdata is a library for parsing, editing, and saving IPTC data stored inside images. IPTC is a standard for encoding metadata such as captions, titles, locations, etc. in the headers of an image file. libiptcdata also includes a command-line utility for modifying the metadata.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libiptcdata.i686

How To Uninstall libiptcdata.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libiptcdata.i686

libiptcdata.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/iptc
/usr/lib/libiptcdata.so.0
/usr/lib/libiptcdata.so.0.3.3
/usr/share/doc/libiptcdata-1.0.4
/usr/share/doc/libiptcdata-1.0.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libiptcdata-1.0.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libiptcdata-1.0.4/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libiptcdata-1.0.4/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libiptcdata-1.0.4/README
/usr/share/doc/libiptcdata-1.0.4/TODO
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/iptc.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libiptcdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/iptc.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libiptcdata.mo

References

libiptcdata.i686 website

Summary

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