How To Install libtiff-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtiff-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libtiff-static.x86_64 is Static TIFF image format file library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtiff-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libtiff-static.x86_64`

The libtiff-static package contains the statically linkable version of libtiff. Linking to static libraries is discouraged for most applications, but it is necessary for some boot packages.

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

Install libtiff-static.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 libtiff-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libtiff-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libtiff-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libtiff-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libtiff-static.x86_64

libtiff-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libtiff.a
/usr/lib64/libtiffxx.a

References

libtiff-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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