How To Install libxkbfile.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libxkbfile.i686`

X.Org X11 libxkbfile runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libxkbfile.i686

How To Uninstall libxkbfile.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libxkbfile.i686

libxkbfile.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libxkbfile.so.1
/usr/lib/libxkbfile.so.1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libxkbfile-1.0.9
/usr/share/doc/libxkbfile-1.0.9/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libxkbfile-1.0.9/ChangeLog

References

libxkbfile.i686 website

Summary

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