How To Install libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 is Headers and links to compile against the libgphoto2 library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libgphoto2-devel.x86_64`

libgphoto2 is a library that can be used by applications to access various digital cameras. libgphoto2 itself is not a GUI application, opposed to gphoto. There are GUI frontends for the gphoto2 library, however, such as gtkam for example. This package contains files needed to compile applications that use libgphoto2.

We can use yum to install libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgphoto2-devel.x86_64.

Install libgphoto2-devel.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 libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgphoto2-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libgphoto2-devel.x86_64

libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gphoto2-config
/usr/bin/gphoto2-port-config
/usr/include/gphoto2
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-abilities-list.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-camera.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-context.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-file.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-library.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-list.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-port-info-list.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-port-log.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-port-portability.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-port-result.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-port-version.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-port.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-result.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-setting.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-version.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2-widget.h
/usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2.h
/usr/lib64/libgphoto2.so
/usr/lib64/libgphoto2_port.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libgphoto2.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libgphoto2_port.pc
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/README
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/README.packaging
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.9050
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.9051
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.9052
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.905C
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.913C
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.913D
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.adc65
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.agfa-cl20
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.aox
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.ax203
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.ax203-compression
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.canon
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.clicksmart310
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.enigma13
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.gsmart300
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.iclick
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.jamcam
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.jl2005a
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.jl2005bcd-compression
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.jl2005c
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.konica
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.largan-lmini
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.lg_gsm
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.mars
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.minolta-dimagev
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.mustek
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.panasonic
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.panasonic-coolshot
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.panasonic-l859
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.pccam300
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.pccam600
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.pentax
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.ptp2
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.smal
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.sonix
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.sonydscf1
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.soundvision
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.spca50x
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.sq905
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.st2205
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.st2205-compression
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.toshiba-pdrm11
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/camlibs/README.tp6801
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/linux-hotplug
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/linux-hotplug/usbcam.console
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/linux-hotplug/usbcam.group
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/linux-hotplug/usbcam.user
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-devel-2.5.15/linux-hotplug/usbcam.x11-app
/usr/share/man/man3/libgphoto2.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libgphoto2_port.3.gz

References

libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgphoto2-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.