How To Install libXrandr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXrandr-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXrandr-devel.x86_64 is X.Org X11 libXrandr development package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXrandr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libXrandr-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXrandr development package

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

Install libXrandr-devel.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 libXrandr-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXrandr-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXrandr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libXrandr-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libXrandr-devel.x86_64

libXrandr-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrandr.h
/usr/lib64/libXrandr.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xrandr.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRConfigCurrentConfiguration.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRConfigCurrentRate.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRConfigRates.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRConfigRotations.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRConfigSizes.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRConfigTimes.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRFreeScreenConfigInfo.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRGetScreenInfo.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRQueryExtension.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRQueryVersion.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRRootToScreen.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRSelectInput.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRSetScreenConfig.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XRRSetScreenConfigAndRate.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Xrandr.3.gz

References

libXrandr-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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