How To Install libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 is X.Org X11 XKB parsing development package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 XKB parsing development package

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

Install libxkbcommon-devel.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 libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64

libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/xkbcommon
/usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-compat.h
/usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-compose.h
/usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-keysyms.h
/usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-names.h
/usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h
/usr/lib64/libxkbcommon.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xkbcommon.pc

References

libxkbcommon-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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