How To Install brltty-xw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-xw.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. brltty-xw.x86_64 is XWindow driver for BRLTTY

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-xw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `brltty-xw.x86_64`

This package provides the XWindow driver for BRLTTY.

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

Install brltty-xw.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 brltty-xw.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install brltty-xw.x86_64

How To Uninstall brltty-xw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the brltty-xw.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove brltty-xw.x86_64

brltty-xw.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so
/usr/share/doc/brltty-xw-4.5
/usr/share/doc/brltty-xw-4.5/README

References

brltty-xw.x86_64 website

Summary

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