How To Install libXvMC.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXvMC.i686`

X.Org X11 libXvMC runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXvMC.i686

How To Uninstall libXvMC.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXvMC.i686

libXvMC.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/X11/XvMCConfig
/usr/lib/libXvMC.so.1
/usr/lib/libXvMC.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libXvMCW.so.1
/usr/lib/libXvMCW.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXvMC-1.0.10
/usr/share/doc/libXvMC-1.0.10/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXvMC-1.0.10/README

References

libXvMC.i686 website

Summary

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