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

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXtst-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXtst development package

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXtst-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libXtst-devel.x86_64

libXtst-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/extensions/XTest.h
/usr/include/X11/extensions/record.h
/usr/lib64/libXtst.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xtst.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestCompareCurrentCursorWithWindow.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestCompareCursorWithWindow.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestDiscard.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestFakeButtonEvent.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestFakeKeyEvent.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestFakeMotionEvent.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestFakeRelativeMotionEvent.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestGrabControl.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestQueryExtension.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestSetGContextOfGC.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XTestSetVisualIDOfVisual.3.gz

References

libXtst-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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