How To Install libappindicator.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libappindicator.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libappindicator.x86_64 is Application indicators library

Introduction

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

What is `libappindicator.x86_64`

A library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar. Based on KSNI it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if none of those are available.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libappindicator.x86_64

How To Uninstall libappindicator.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libappindicator.x86_64

libappindicator.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AppIndicator-0.1.typelib
/usr/lib64/libappindicator.so.1
/usr/lib64/libappindicator.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-12.10.0
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-12.10.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-12.10.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-12.10.0/COPYING.LGPL.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-12.10.0/README

References

libappindicator.x86_64 website

Summary

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