How To Install jbigkit-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install jbigkit-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. jbigkit-libs.x86_64 is JBIG1 lossless image compression library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jbigkit-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `jbigkit-libs.x86_64`

JBIG-KIT provides a portable library of compression and decompression functions with a documented interface that you can include very easily into your image or document processing software. In addition, JBIG-KIT provides ready-to-use compression and decompression programs with a simple command line interface (similar to the converters found in netpbm). JBIG-KIT implements the specification ISO/IEC 11544 Information technology — Coded representation of picture and audio information — Progressive bi-level image compression which is commonly referred to as the “JBIG1 standard”

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

Install jbigkit-libs.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 jbigkit-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jbigkit-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall jbigkit-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the jbigkit-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove jbigkit-libs.x86_64

jbigkit-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libjbig.so.2.0
/usr/lib64/libjbig85.so.2.0
/usr/share/doc/jbigkit-libs-2.0
/usr/share/doc/jbigkit-libs-2.0/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/jbigkit-libs-2.0/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/jbigkit-libs-2.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/jbigkit-libs-2.0/TODO

References

jbigkit-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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