How To Install dbus-x11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus-x11.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dbus-x11.x86_64 is X11-requiring add-ons for D-BUS

Introduction

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

What is `dbus-x11.x86_64`

D-BUS contains some tools that require Xlib to be installed, those are in this separate package so server systems need not install X.

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

Install dbus-x11.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 dbus-x11.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dbus-x11.x86_64

How To Uninstall dbus-x11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dbus-x11.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dbus-x11.x86_64

dbus-x11.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/00-start-message-bus.sh
/usr/bin/dbus-launch
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-launch.1.gz

References

dbus-x11.x86_64 website

Summary

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