How To Install startup-notification.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install startup-notification.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. startup-notification.x86_64 is Library for tracking application startup

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install startup-notification.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `startup-notification.x86_64`

This package contains libstartup-notification which implements a startup notification protocol. Using this protocol a desktop environment can track the launch of an application and provide feedback such as a busy cursor, among other features.

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

Install startup-notification.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 startup-notification.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install startup-notification.x86_64

How To Uninstall startup-notification.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the startup-notification.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove startup-notification.x86_64

startup-notification.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libstartup-notification-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification-0.12
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification-0.12/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification-0.12/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification-0.12/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification-0.12/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification-0.12/startup-notification.txt

References

startup-notification.x86_64 website

Summary

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