How To Install libv4l-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libv4l-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libv4l-devel.x86_64

The libv4l-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use libv4l.

We can use yum to install libv4l-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 libv4l-devel.x86_64.

Install libv4l-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 libv4l-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libv4l-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libv4l-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libv4l-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libv4l-devel.x86_64

libv4l-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/dvb-demux.h
/usr/include/dvb-fe.h
/usr/include/dvb-file.h
/usr/include/dvb-frontend.h
/usr/include/dvb-sat.h
/usr/include/dvb-scan.h
/usr/include/dvb-v5-std.h
/usr/include/libv4l-plugin.h
/usr/include/libv4l1-videodev.h
/usr/include/libv4l1.h
/usr/include/libv4l2.h
/usr/include/libv4l2rds.h
/usr/include/libv4lconvert.h
/usr/lib64/libdvbv5.so
/usr/lib64/libv4l1.so
/usr/lib64/libv4l2.so
/usr/lib64/libv4l2rds.so
/usr/lib64/libv4lconvert.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libdvbv5.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libv4l1.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libv4l2.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libv4l2rds.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libv4lconvert.pc
/usr/share/doc/libv4l-devel-0.9.5
/usr/share/doc/libv4l-devel-0.9.5/README.lib-multi-threading

References

• libv4l-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libv4l-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.