How To Install glx-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install glx-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. glx-utils.x86_64 is GLX utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glx-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `glx-utils.x86_64`

The glx-utils package provides the glxinfo and glxgears utilities.

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

Install glx-utils.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 glx-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glx-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall glx-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the glx-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove glx-utils.x86_64

glx-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/glxgears
/usr/bin/glxinfo
/usr/bin/glxinfo64
/usr/bin/xdriinfo
/usr/share/man/man1/xdriinfo.1.gz

References

glx-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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