How To Install libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 is Static version of the libjpeg-turbo library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64`

The libjpeg-turbo-static package contains static library for manipulating JPEG images.

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

Install libjpeg-turbo-static.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 libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64

libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libjpeg.a

References

libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjpeg-turbo-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.