How To Install opal.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install opal.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. opal.i686 is Open Phone Abstraction Library

Introduction

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

What is `opal.i686`

Open Phone Abstraction Library, implementation of the ITU H.323 teleconferencing protocol, and successor of the openh323 library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install opal.i686

How To Uninstall opal.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove opal.i686

opal.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libopal.so.3.10.10
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/g7221_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/g7222_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/g722_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/g726_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/gsm0610_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/gsmamrcodec_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/iLBC_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/ima_adpcm_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/lpc10_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/speex_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/video
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/video/h261_vic_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib/opal-3.10.10/codecs/video/theora_ptplugin.so
/usr/share/doc/opal-3.10.10
/usr/share/doc/opal-3.10.10/mpl-1.0.htm

References

opal.i686 website

Summary

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