How To Install libXfixes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXfixes.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXfixes.x86_64 is X Fixes library

Introduction

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

What is `libXfixes.x86_64`

X Fixes library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXfixes.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXfixes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXfixes.x86_64

libXfixes.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3
/usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libXfixes-5.0.3
/usr/share/doc/libXfixes-5.0.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXfixes-5.0.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXfixes-5.0.3/README

References

libXfixes.x86_64 website

Summary

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