How To Install libdbusmenu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbusmenu.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libdbusmenu.x86_64 is Library for passing menus over DBus

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbusmenu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libdbusmenu.x86_64`

This is a small library designed to make sharing and displaying of menu structures over DBus simple and easy to use. It works for both QT and GTK+ and makes building menus simple.

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

Install libdbusmenu.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 libdbusmenu.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdbusmenu.x86_64

How To Uninstall libdbusmenu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libdbusmenu.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libdbusmenu.x86_64

libdbusmenu.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Dbusmenu-0.4.typelib
/usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
/usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4.0.12
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-16.04.0
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu-16.04.0
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/COPYING-GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu-16.04.0/COPYING.2.1

References

libdbusmenu.x86_64 website

Summary

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