How To Install qimageblitz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qimageblitz.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. qimageblitz.x86_64 is Graphical effect and filter library

Introduction

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

What is `qimageblitz.x86_64`

Blitz is a graphical effect and filter library for KDE4 that contains improvements over KDE 3.x’s kdefx library including bugfixes, memory and speed improvements, and MMX/SSE support.

We can use yum to install qimageblitz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qimageblitz.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install qimageblitz.x86_64

How To Uninstall qimageblitz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove qimageblitz.x86_64

qimageblitz.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libqimageblitz.so.4
/usr/lib64/libqimageblitz.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/qimageblitz-0.0.6
/usr/share/doc/qimageblitz-0.0.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/qimageblitz-0.0.6/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/qimageblitz-0.0.6/README.BLITZ
/usr/share/doc/qimageblitz-0.0.6/README.PORTING

References

qimageblitz.x86_64 website

Summary

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