How To Install motif.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install motif.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. motif.i686 is Run-time libraries and programs

Introduction

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

What is `motif.i686`

This is the Motif 2.3.4 run-time environment. It includes the Motif shared libraries, needed to run applications which are dynamically linked against Motif and the Motif Window Manager mwm.

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

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

sudo yum -y install motif.i686

How To Uninstall motif.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove motif.i686

motif.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/X11/mwm
/etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xmbind.sh
/usr/bin/mwm
/usr/bin/xmbind
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_error
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_hour16
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_hour16m
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_hour32
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_hour32m
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_information
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_noenter16
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_noenter16m
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_noenter32
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_noenter32m
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_question
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_warning
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_working
/usr/lib/libMrm.so.4
/usr/lib/libMrm.so.4.0.4
/usr/lib/libUil.so.4
/usr/lib/libUil.so.4.0.4
/usr/lib/libXm.so.4
/usr/lib/libXm.so.4.0.4
/usr/share/X11/bindings
/usr/share/X11/bindings/acorn
/usr/share/X11/bindings/apollo
/usr/share/X11/bindings/dec
/usr/share/X11/bindings/dg_AViiON
/usr/share/X11/bindings/doubleclick
/usr/share/X11/bindings/hal
/usr/share/X11/bindings/hitachi
/usr/share/X11/bindings/hp
/usr/share/X11/bindings/ibm
/usr/share/X11/bindings/intergraph
/usr/share/X11/bindings/intergraph17
/usr/share/X11/bindings/megatek
/usr/share/X11/bindings/motorola
/usr/share/X11/bindings/ncr_at
/usr/share/X11/bindings/ncr_vt
/usr/share/X11/bindings/pc
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sgi
/usr/share/X11/bindings/siemens_9733
/usr/share/X11/bindings/siemens_wx200
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sni
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sni_97801
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sony
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sun
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sun_at
/usr/share/X11/bindings/tek
/usr/share/X11/bindings/xmbind.alias
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4/README
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4/RELEASE
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4/RELNOTES
/usr/share/man/man1/mwm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xmbind.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man4/mwmrc.4.gz

References

motif.i686 website

Summary

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