How To Install libgxim.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgxim.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libgxim.i686 is GObject-based XIM protocol library

Introduction

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

What is `libgxim.i686`

libgxim is a X Input Method protocol library that is implemented by GObject. this library helps you to implement XIM servers or client applications to communicate through XIM protocol without using Xlib API directly, particularly if your application uses GObject-based main loop. This package contains the shared library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgxim.i686

How To Uninstall libgxim.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgxim.i686

libgxim.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libgxim.so.4
/usr/lib/libgxim.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0/README
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo

References

libgxim.i686 website

Summary

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