How To Install libmusicbrainz.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmusicbrainz.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libmusicbrainz.i686 is Library for accessing MusicBrainz servers

Introduction

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

What is `libmusicbrainz.i686`

The MusicBrainz client library allows applications to make metadata lookup to a MusicBrainz server, generate signatures from WAV data and create CD Index Disk ids from audio CD roms.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmusicbrainz.i686

How To Uninstall libmusicbrainz.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmusicbrainz.i686

libmusicbrainz.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libmusicbrainz.so.4
/usr/lib/libmusicbrainz.so.4.0.3
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5/README
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5/TODO

References

libmusicbrainz.i686 website

Summary

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