How To Install sox-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sox-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sox-devel.x86_64 is The SoX sound file format converter libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sox-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sox-devel.x86_64`

This package contains the library needed for compiling applications which will use the SoX sound file format converter.

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

Install sox-devel.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 sox-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sox-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall sox-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sox-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sox-devel.x86_64

sox-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/sox
/usr/include/sox/sox.h
/usr/lib64/libsox.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/sox.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/libsox.3.gz

References

sox-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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