How To Install libgxps.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgxps.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libgxps.i686 is GObject based library for handling and rendering XPS documents

Introduction

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

What is `libgxps.i686`

libgxps is a GObject based library for handling and rendering XPS documents.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgxps.i686

How To Uninstall libgxps.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgxps.i686

libgxps.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GXPS-0.1.typelib
/usr/lib/libgxps.so.2
/usr/lib/libgxps.so.2.2.2
/usr/share/doc/libgxps-0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libgxps-0.3.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgxps-0.3.0/MAINTAINERS
/usr/share/doc/libgxps-0.3.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libgxps-0.3.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libgxps-0.3.0/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libgxps-0.3.0
/usr/share/licenses/libgxps-0.3.0/COPYING

References

libgxps.i686 website

Summary

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