How To Install libXmu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXmu.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXmu.x86_64 is X.Org X11 libXmu/libXmuu runtime libraries

Introduction

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

What is `libXmu.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXmu/libXmuu runtime libraries

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXmu.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXmu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXmu.x86_64

libXmu.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXmu.so.6
/usr/lib64/libXmu.so.6.2.0
/usr/lib64/libXmuu.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXmuu.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXmu-1.1.2
/usr/share/doc/libXmu-1.1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXmu-1.1.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXmu-1.1.2/README

References

libXmu.x86_64 website

Summary

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