How To Install libraw1394.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libraw1394.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libraw1394.x86_64 is Library providing low-level IEEE-1394 access

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libraw1394.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libraw1394.x86_64`

The libraw1394 library provides direct access to the IEEE-1394 bus. Support for both the obsolete ieee1394 interface and the new firewire intererface are included, with run-time detection of the active stack.

We can use yum to install libraw1394.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libraw1394.x86_64.

Install libraw1394.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 libraw1394.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libraw1394.x86_64

How To Uninstall libraw1394.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libraw1394.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libraw1394.x86_64

libraw1394.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/dumpiso
/usr/bin/sendiso
/usr/bin/testlibraw
/usr/lib64/libraw1394.so.11
/usr/lib64/libraw1394.so.11.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libraw1394-2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libraw1394-2.1.0/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libraw1394-2.1.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libraw1394-2.1.0/README
/usr/share/man/man1/dumpiso.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sendiso.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/testlibraw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/isodump.5.gz

References

libraw1394.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libraw1394.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.