How To Install xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 is Xorg X11 evdev input driver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64`

X.Org X11 evdev input driver.

We can use yum to install xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64.

Install xorg-x11-drv-evdev.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 xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64

How To Uninstall xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64

xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.10.6
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.10.6/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man4/evdev.4.gz

References

xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.