How To Install libXdamage.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXdamage.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libXdamage.i686 is X Damage extension library

Introduction

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

What is `libXdamage.i686`

X.Org X11 libXdamage runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXdamage.i686

How To Uninstall libXdamage.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXdamage.i686

libXdamage.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1
/usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libXdamage-1.1.4
/usr/share/doc/libXdamage-1.1.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXdamage-1.1.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXdamage-1.1.4/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXdamage-1.1.4/README

References

libXdamage.i686 website

Summary

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