How To Install libpng12.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpng12.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpng12.x86_64 is Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpng12.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libpng12.x86_64`

The libpng12 package provides libpng 1.2, an older version of the libpng library for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. This version should be used only if you are unable to use the current version of libpng.

We can use yum to install libpng12.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpng12.x86_64.

Install libpng12.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 libpng12.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpng12.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpng12.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libpng12.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libpng12.x86_64

libpng12.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpng.so.3
/usr/lib64/libpng.so.3.50.0
/usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0.50.0
/usr/share/doc/libpng12-1.2.50
/usr/share/doc/libpng12-1.2.50/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/libpng12-1.2.50/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libpng12-1.2.50/README
/usr/share/doc/libpng12-1.2.50/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libpng12-1.2.50/libpng-1.2.50.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/png12.5.gz

References

libpng12.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpng12.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.