How To Install libdrm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libdrm.x86_64 is Direct Rendering Manager runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libdrm.x86_64`

Direct Rendering Manager runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libdrm.x86_64

How To Uninstall libdrm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libdrm.x86_64

libdrm.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/91-drm-modeset.rules
/usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2
/usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2.4.0
/usr/lib64/libdrm_amdgpu.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdrm_amdgpu.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libdrm_intel.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdrm_intel.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.2
/usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/libdrm_radeon.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdrm_radeon.so.1.0.1
/usr/lib64/libkms.so.1
/usr/lib64/libkms.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libdrm-2.4.97
/usr/share/doc/libdrm-2.4.97/README.rst
/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids

References

libdrm.x86_64 website

Summary

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