How To Install libopenraw on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenraw on Rocky Linux 8. libopenraw is Decode camera RAW files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenraw on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `libopenraw`

libopenraw is an ongoing project to provide a free software implementation for camera RAW files decoding. One of the main reason is that dcraw is not suited for easy integration into applications, and there is a need for an easy to use API to build free software digital image processing application.

We can use yum or dnf to install libopenraw on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libopenraw.

Install libopenraw on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libopenraw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libopenraw

Install libopenraw on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libopenraw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libopenraw

How To Uninstall libopenraw on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libopenraw package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libopenraw

libopenraw Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/8941f7f162871406798d24fff0a74261248320
/usr/lib/libopenraw.so.7
/usr/lib/libopenraw.so.7.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/README
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/TODO
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/a9cace582e5bae3abc5fc60a6c67f2ff0dda79
/usr/lib64/libopenraw.so.7
/usr/lib64/libopenraw.so.7.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/README
/usr/share/doc/libopenraw/TODO

References

libopenraw website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenraw on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.