How To Install libvpx-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libvpx-utils.x86_64

A selection of utilities and tools for VP8, including a sample encoder and decoder.

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

Install libvpx-utils.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 libvpx-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvpx-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvpx-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvpx-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvpx-utils.x86_64

libvpx-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/decode_to_md5
/usr/bin/decode_with_drops
/usr/bin/error_resilient
/usr/bin/force_keyframe
/usr/bin/vp8_postproc
/usr/bin/vp8_scalable_patterns
/usr/bin/vp8_set_maps
/usr/bin/vp8_simple_decoder
/usr/bin/vp8_simple_encoder
/usr/bin/vp8_twopass_encoder
/usr/bin/vp8cx_set_ref
/usr/bin/vp9_spatial_scalable_encoder
/usr/bin/vpxdec
/usr/bin/vpxenc

References

• libvpx-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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