How To Install libwebp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebp.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libwebp.i686 is Library and tools for the WebP graphics format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libwebp.i686`

WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital images more efficiently.

We can use yum to install libwebp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libwebp.i686.

Install libwebp.i686 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 libwebp.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libwebp.i686

How To Uninstall libwebp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libwebp.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libwebp.i686

libwebp.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libwebp.so.4
/usr/lib/libwebp.so.4.0.2
/usr/lib/libwebpmux.so.0
/usr/lib/libwebpmux.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libwebp-0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libwebp-0.3.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp-0.3.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libwebp-0.3.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp-0.3.0/PATENTS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp-0.3.0/README

References

libwebp.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.