How To Install libXxf86misc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXxf86misc.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXxf86misc.x86_64 is X.Org X11 libXxf86misc runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXxf86misc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libXxf86misc.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXxf86misc runtime library

We can use yum to install libXxf86misc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXxf86misc.x86_64.

Install libXxf86misc.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 libXxf86misc.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXxf86misc.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXxf86misc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libXxf86misc.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libXxf86misc.x86_64

libXxf86misc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXxf86misc.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXxf86misc.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libXxf86misc-1.0.3
/usr/share/doc/libXxf86misc-1.0.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXxf86misc-1.0.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXxf86misc-1.0.3/README

References

libXxf86misc.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXxf86misc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.