How To Install libtiff.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtiff.i686
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libtiff.i686
The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the .tif extension and they are often quite large. The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF format image files.
We can use yum
to install libtiff.i686
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libtiff.i686.
Install libtiff.i686 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.i686
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libtiff.i686
How To Uninstall libtiff.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libtiff.i686
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libtiff.i686
libtiff.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib/libtiff.so.5
/usr/lib/libtiff.so.5.2.0
/usr/lib/libtiffxx.so.5
/usr/lib/libtiffxx.so.5.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libtiff-4.0.3
/usr/share/doc/libtiff-4.0.3/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libtiff-4.0.3/README
/usr/share/doc/libtiff-4.0.3/RELEASE-DATE
/usr/share/doc/libtiff-4.0.3/VERSION
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtiff.i686
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.