How To Install libshout-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libshout-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libshout-devel.x86_64 is static libraries and header files for libshout development.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libshout-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libshout-devel.x86_64

The libshout-devel package contains the header files needed for developing applications that send data to an icecast server. Install libshout-devel if you want to develop applications using libshout.

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

Install libshout-devel.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 libshout-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libshout-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libshout-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libshout-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libshout-devel.x86_64

libshout-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/shout
/usr/include/shout/shout.h
/usr/lib64/libshout.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/shout.pc
/usr/share/aclocal/shout.m4
/usr/share/doc/libshout-devel-2.2.2
/usr/share/doc/libshout-devel-2.2.2/example.c
/usr/share/doc/libshout-devel-2.2.2/libshout.xml
/usr/share/doc/libshout-devel-2.2.2/nonblocking.c
/usr/share/doc/libshout-devel-2.2.2/spec-html.xsl

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Summary

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