How To Install taglib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install taglib.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. taglib.i686 is Audio Meta-Data Library

Introduction

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

What is `taglib.i686`

TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data of several popular audio formats. Currently it supports both ID3v1 and ID3v2 for MP3 files, Ogg Vorbis comments and ID3 tags and Vorbis comments in FLAC, MPC, Speex, WavPack, TrueAudio files, as well as APE Tags.

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

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

sudo yum -y install taglib.i686

How To Uninstall taglib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove taglib.i686

taglib.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libtag.so.1
/usr/lib/libtag.so.1.12.0
/usr/lib/libtag_c.so.0
/usr/lib/libtag_c.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/taglib-1.8
/usr/share/doc/taglib-1.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/taglib-1.8/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/taglib-1.8/NEWS

References

taglib.i686 website

Summary

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