How To Install libvisual.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisual.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libvisual.x86_64
Libvisual is an abstraction library that comes between applications and audio visualisation plugins. Often when it comes to audio visualisation plugins or programs that create visuals they do depend on a player or something else, basically there is no general framework that enable application developers to easy access cool audio visualisation plugins. Libvisual wants to change this by providing an interface towards plugins and applications, through this easy to use interface applications can easily access plugins and since the drawing is done by the application it also enables the developer to draw the visual anywhere he wants.
We can use yum to install libvisual.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvisual.x86_64.
Install libvisual.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 libvisual.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvisual.x86_64
How To Uninstall libvisual.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libvisual.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libvisual.x86_64
libvisual.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/libvisual-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib64/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvisual-0.4.0
/usr/share/doc/libvisual-0.4.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual-0.4.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libvisual-0.4.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvisual-0.4.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual-0.4.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libvisual-0.4.0/TODO
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisual.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.