How To Install libnice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnice.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libnice.x86_64 is GLib ICE implementation

Introduction

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

What is `libnice.x86_64`

libnice is an implementation of the IETF’s draft Interactive Connectivity Establishment standard (ICE). ICE is useful for applications that want to establish peer-to-peer UDP data streams. It automates the process of traversing NATs and provides security against some attacks. Existing standards that use ICE include the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Jingle, XMPP extension for audio/video calls.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libnice.x86_64

How To Uninstall libnice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libnice.x86_64

libnice.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/stunbdc
/usr/bin/stund
/usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstnice010.so
/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstnice.so
/usr/lib64/libnice.so.10
/usr/lib64/libnice.so.10.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libnice-0.1.3
/usr/share/doc/libnice-0.1.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libnice-0.1.3/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/libnice-0.1.3/COPYING.MPL
/usr/share/doc/libnice-0.1.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libnice-0.1.3/README

References

libnice.x86_64 website

Summary

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