How To Install mesa-libGL.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libGL.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. mesa-libGL.i686 is Mesa libGL runtime libraries and DRI drivers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libGL.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mesa-libGL.i686`

Mesa libGL runtime library.

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

Install mesa-libGL.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 mesa-libGL.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-libGL.i686

How To Uninstall mesa-libGL.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mesa-libGL.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mesa-libGL.i686

mesa-libGL.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libGLX_mesa.so.0
/usr/lib/libGLX_mesa.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libGLX_system.so.0

References

mesa-libGL.i686 website

Summary

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