How To Install libimobiledevice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libimobiledevice.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libimobiledevice.x86_64 is Library for connecting to mobile devices

Introduction

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

What is `libimobiledevice.x86_64`

libimobiledevice is a library for connecting to mobile devices including phones and music players

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

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

sudo yum -y install libimobiledevice.x86_64

How To Uninstall libimobiledevice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libimobiledevice.x86_64

libimobiledevice.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libimobiledevice.so.6
/usr/lib64/libimobiledevice.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice-1.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice-1.2.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice-1.2.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/libimobiledevice-1.2.0
/usr/share/licenses/libimobiledevice-1.2.0/COPYING.LESSER

References

libimobiledevice.x86_64 website

Summary

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