How To Install opencv-core.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install opencv-core.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. opencv-core.i686 is OpenCV core libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opencv-core.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `opencv-core.i686`

This package contains the OpenCV C/C++ core libraries.

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

Install opencv-core.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 opencv-core.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install opencv-core.i686

How To Uninstall opencv-core.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the opencv-core.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove opencv-core.i686

opencv-core.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libopencv_core.so.2.4
/usr/lib/libopencv_core.so.2.4.5
/usr/lib/libopencv_flann.so.2.4
/usr/lib/libopencv_flann.so.2.4.5
/usr/lib/libopencv_imgproc.so.2.4
/usr/lib/libopencv_imgproc.so.2.4.5
/usr/lib/libopencv_ml.so.2.4
/usr/lib/libopencv_ml.so.2.4.5
/usr/lib/libopencv_photo.so.2.4
/usr/lib/libopencv_photo.so.2.4.5
/usr/lib/libopencv_video.so.2.4
/usr/lib/libopencv_video.so.2.4.5

References

opencv-core.i686 website

Summary

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