How To Install libvpx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvpx.x86_64 is VP8 Video Codec SDK

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libvpx.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvpx.x86_64.

Install libvpx.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 libvpx.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvpx.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvpx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvpx.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvpx.x86_64

libvpx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libvpx.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvpx.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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