How To Install libXft.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXft.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libXft.i686 is X.Org X11 libXft runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libXft.i686`

X.Org X11 libXft runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXft.i686

How To Uninstall libXft.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXft.i686

libXft.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/libXft.so.2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2/README

References

libXft.i686 website

Summary

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