How To Install xcb-util-image.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xcb-util-image.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xcb-util-image.x86_64 is Port of Xlib’s XImage and XShmImage functions on top of libxcb

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xcb-util-image.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `xcb-util-image.x86_64`

XCB util-image module provides the following library - image

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

Install xcb-util-image.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 xcb-util-image.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xcb-util-image.x86_64

How To Uninstall xcb-util-image.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the xcb-util-image.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove xcb-util-image.x86_64

xcb-util-image.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libxcb-image.so.0
/usr/lib64/libxcb-image.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/xcb-util-image-0.4.0
/usr/share/doc/xcb-util-image-0.4.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xcb-util-image-0.4.0/README

References

xcb-util-image.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xcb-util-image.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.