How To Install libexif.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libexif.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libexif.x86_64 is Library for extracting extra information from image files

Introduction

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

What is `libexif.x86_64`

Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libexif.x86_64

How To Uninstall libexif.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libexif.x86_64

libexif.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libexif.so.12
/usr/lib64/libexif.so.12.3.4
/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22
/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22/README
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libexif-12.mo

References

libexif.x86_64 website

Summary

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