How To Install libmusicbrainz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmusicbrainz.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmusicbrainz.x86_64 is Library for accessing MusicBrainz servers

Introduction

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

What is `libmusicbrainz.x86_64`

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmusicbrainz.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmusicbrainz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmusicbrainz.x86_64

libmusicbrainz.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz.so.4
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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