How To Install libxkbcommon.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libxkbcommon.x86_64`

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.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libxkbcommon.x86_64

How To Uninstall libxkbcommon.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libxkbcommon.x86_64

libxkbcommon.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libxkbcommon.so.0
/usr/lib64/libxkbcommon.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libxkbcommon-0.7.1
/usr/share/licenses/libxkbcommon-0.7.1/LICENSE

References

libxkbcommon.x86_64 website

Summary

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