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

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXScrnSaver-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXss development package

We can use yum to install libXScrnSaver-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 libXScrnSaver-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libXScrnSaver-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libXScrnSaver-devel.x86_64

libXScrnSaver-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h
/usr/lib64/libXss.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xscrnsaver.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverAllocInfo.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverGetRegistered.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverQueryExtension.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverQueryInfo.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverQueryVersion.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverRegister.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverSelectInput.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverSetAttributes.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverSuspend.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverUnregister.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XScreenSaverUnsetAttributes.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Xss.3.gz

References

libXScrnSaver-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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