How To Install libXrender.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXrender.i686`

X.Org X11 libXrender runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXrender.i686

How To Uninstall libXrender.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXrender.i686

libXrender.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1
/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libXrender-0.9.10
/usr/share/doc/libXrender-0.9.10/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXrender-0.9.10/COPYING

References

libXrender.i686 website

Summary

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