How To Install libXtst.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXtst.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXtst.x86_64 is X.Org X11 libXtst runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libXtst.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXtst runtime library

We can use yum to install libXtst.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libXtst.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXtst.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXtst.x86_64

libXtst.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXtst.so.6
/usr/lib64/libXtst.so.6.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libXtst-1.2.3
/usr/share/doc/libXtst-1.2.3/COPYING

References

libXtst.x86_64 website

Summary

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