How To Install libpng-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpng-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpng-static.x86_64 is Static PNG image format file library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpng-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libpng-static.x86_64`

The libpng-static package contains the statically linkable version of libpng. Linking to static libraries is discouraged for most applications, but it is necessary for some boot packages.

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

Install libpng-static.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 libpng-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpng-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpng-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libpng-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libpng-static.x86_64

libpng-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpng.a
/usr/lib64/libpng15.a

References

libpng-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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