How To Install libXdamage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXdamage.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXdamage.x86_64 is X Damage extension library

Introduction

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

What is `libXdamage.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXdamage runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXdamage.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXdamage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXdamage.x86_64

libXdamage.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXdamage.so.1
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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