How To Install libXp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXp.i686`

X.Org X11 libXp runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXp.i686

How To Uninstall libXp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXp.i686

libXp.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXp.so.6
/usr/lib/libXp.so.6.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libXp-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libXp-1.0.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXp-1.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXp-1.0.2/ChangeLog

References

libXp.i686 website

Summary

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