How To Install libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 is Library for accessing MusicBrainz servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libmusicbrainz5.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 libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libmusicbrainz5.x86_64.

Install libmusicbrainz5.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 libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmusicbrainz5.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libmusicbrainz5.x86_64

libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz5.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz5.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz5-5.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz5-5.0.1/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz5-5.0.1/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz5-5.0.1/NEWS.txt
/usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz5-5.0.1/README.md

References

libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmusicbrainz5.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.