How To Install libvpx.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libvpx.i686 is VP8 Video Codec SDK

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libvpx.i686`

libvpx provides the VP8 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applications with the VP8 video codec, a high quality, royalty free, open source codec deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide.

We can use yum to install libvpx.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvpx.i686.

Install libvpx.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 libvpx.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvpx.i686

How To Uninstall libvpx.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvpx.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvpx.i686

libvpx.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libvpx.so.1
/usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libvpx-1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libvpx-1.3.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvpx-1.3.0/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/libvpx-1.3.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libvpx-1.3.0/README

References

libvpx.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.