How To Install libxkbcommon.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libxkbcommon.i686 is X.Org X11 XKB parsing library

Introduction

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

What is `libxkbcommon.i686`

libxkbcommon is the X.Org library for compiling XKB maps into formats usable by the X Server or other display servers.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libxkbcommon.i686

How To Uninstall libxkbcommon.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libxkbcommon.i686

libxkbcommon.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libxkbcommon.so.0
/usr/lib/libxkbcommon.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libxkbcommon-0.7.1
/usr/share/licenses/libxkbcommon-0.7.1/LICENSE

References

libxkbcommon.i686 website

Summary

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