How To Install libiptcdata.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiptcdata.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libiptcdata.x86_64 is IPTC tag library

Introduction

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

What is `libiptcdata.x86_64`

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

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

sudo yum -y install libiptcdata.x86_64

How To Uninstall libiptcdata.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libiptcdata.x86_64

libiptcdata.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/iptc
/usr/lib64/libiptcdata.so.0
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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