How To Install brlapi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install brlapi.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. brlapi.x86_64 is Application Programming Interface for BRLTTY

Introduction

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

What is brlapi.x86_64

This package provides the run-time support for the Application Programming Interface to BRLTTY. Install this package if you have an application which directly accesses a refreshable braille display.

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

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

sudo yum -y install brlapi.x86_64

How To Uninstall brlapi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove brlapi.x86_64

brlapi.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/vstp
/usr/bin/xbrlapi
/usr/lib64/brltty/libbrlttybba.so
/usr/lib64/libbrlapi.so.0.6
/usr/lib64/libbrlapi.so.0.6.0
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-1.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-2.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-3.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-4.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-5.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-6.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-7.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.sgml
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.txt
/usr/share/doc/brlapi-0.6.0/README
/usr/share/man/man1/vstp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xbrlapi.1.gz

References

Summary

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