How To Install libopenraw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenraw.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libopenraw.x86_64 is Decode camera RAW files

Introduction

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

What is `libopenraw.x86_64`

libopenraw is an ongoing project to provide a free software implementation for camera RAW files decoding. One of the main reason is that dcraw is not suited for easy integration into applications, and there is a need for an easy to use API to build free software digital image processing application.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libopenraw.x86_64

How To Uninstall libopenraw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libopenraw.x86_64

libopenraw.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libopenraw.so.1
/usr/lib64/libopenraw.so.1.6.0
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw-0.0.9
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw-0.0.9/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw-0.0.9/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw-0.0.9/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw-0.0.9/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw-0.0.9/README
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw-0.0.9/TODO

References

libopenraw.x86_64 website

Summary

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