How To Install opal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install opal.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. opal.x86_64 is Open Phone Abstraction Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is opal.x86_64

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install opal.x86_64.

Install opal.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 opal.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install opal.x86_64

How To Uninstall opal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the opal.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove opal.x86_64

opal.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libopal.so.3.10.10
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/g7221_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/g7222_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/g722_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/g726_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/gsm0610_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/gsmamrcodec_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/iLBC_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/ima_adpcm_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/lpc10_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/audio/speex_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/video
/usr/lib64/opal-3.10.10/codecs/video/h261_vic_ptplugin.so
/usr/lib64/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

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Summary

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