How To Install libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 is X.Org X11 XKB keymap creation library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 XKB keymap creation library development package

We can use yum to install libxkbcommon-x11-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-x11-devel.x86_64.

Install libxkbcommon-x11-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-x11-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64

libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-x11.h
/usr/lib64/libxkbcommon-x11.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xkbcommon-x11.pc

References

libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon-x11-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.