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

Introduction

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

What is libtheora-devel.x86_64

The libtheora-devel package contains the header files needed to develop applications with libtheora.

We can use yum to install libtheora-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 libtheora-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libtheora-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libtheora-devel.x86_64

libtheora-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/theora
/usr/include/theora/codec.h
/usr/include/theora/theora.h
/usr/include/theora/theoradec.h
/usr/include/theora/theoraenc.h
/usr/lib64/libtheora.so
/usr/lib64/libtheoradec.so
/usr/lib64/libtheoraenc.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/theora.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/theoradec.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/theoraenc.pc

References

• libtheora-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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