How To Install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 is GStreamer “bad” plugins gtk plugin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64

GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of elements which operate on media data. gstreamer-plugins-bad contains plug-ins that aren’t tested well enough, or the code is not of good enough quality. This package (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk) contains the gtksink output plugin.

We can use yum to install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64.

Install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.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 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64

How To Uninstall gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64

gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstgtksink.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.