How To Install libXdmcp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXdmcp.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libXdmcp.i686 is X Display Manager Control Protocol library

Introduction

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

What is `libXdmcp.i686`

X Display Manager Control Protocol library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXdmcp.i686

How To Uninstall libXdmcp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXdmcp.i686

libXdmcp.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6
/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2/Wraphelp.README.crypto

References

libXdmcp.i686 website

Summary

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