How To Install taglib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install taglib.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. taglib.x86_64 is Audio Meta-Data Library

Introduction

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

What is taglib.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum -y install taglib.x86_64

How To Uninstall taglib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove taglib.x86_64

taglib.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libtag.so.1
/usr/lib64/libtag.so.1.12.0
/usr/lib64/libtag_c.so.0
/usr/lib64/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

Summary

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