How To Install libshout.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libshout.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libshout.x86_64 is Icecast source streaming library

Introduction

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

What is `libshout.x86_64`

libshout is a library for communicating with and sending data to an icecast server. It handles the socket connection, the timing of the data, and prevents most bad data from getting to the icecast server.

We can use yum to install libshout.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libshout.x86_64

How To Uninstall libshout.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libshout.x86_64

libshout.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libshout.so.3
/usr/lib64/libshout.so.3.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libshout-2.2.2
/usr/share/doc/libshout-2.2.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libshout-2.2.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libshout-2.2.2/README

References

libshout.x86_64 website

Summary

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