How To Install libXinerama on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXinerama on Rocky Linux 8. libXinerama is X.Org X11 libXinerama runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXinerama on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libXinerama

X.Org X11 libXinerama runtime library

We can use yum or dnf to install libXinerama on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXinerama.

Install libXinerama on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libXinerama using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libXinerama

Install libXinerama on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libXinerama using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXinerama

How To Uninstall libXinerama on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libXinerama package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libXinerama

libXinerama Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/d4f04073432abeaa0b99feb9f623ebd3fb1332
/usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXinerama
/usr/share/doc/libXinerama/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/c8dd4d576ea4e42d4f8c5444546b325a6d66e0
/usr/lib64/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXinerama
/usr/share/doc/libXinerama/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXinerama on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.