How To Install libgxps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgxps.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgxps.x86_64 is GObject based library for handling and rendering XPS documents

Introduction

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

What is `libgxps.x86_64`

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

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgxps.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgxps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgxps.x86_64

libgxps.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GXPS-0.1.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgxps.so.2
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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