How To Install libXv.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXv.i686`

X.Org X11 libXv runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXv.i686

How To Uninstall libXv.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXv.i686

libXv.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXv.so.1
/usr/lib/libXv.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXv-1.0.11
/usr/share/doc/libXv-1.0.11/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXv-1.0.11/COPYING

References

libXv.i686 website

Summary

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