How To Install mesa-libGL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libGL.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mesa-libGL.x86_64 is Mesa libGL runtime libraries and DRI drivers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libGL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mesa-libGL.x86_64`

Mesa libGL runtime library.

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

Install mesa-libGL.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 mesa-libGL.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-libGL.x86_64

How To Uninstall mesa-libGL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mesa-libGL.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mesa-libGL.x86_64

mesa-libGL.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libGLX_mesa.so.0
/usr/lib64/libGLX_mesa.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libGLX_system.so.0

References

mesa-libGL.x86_64 website

Summary

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