How To Install libdmx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdmx.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libdmx.x86_64 is X.Org X11 DMX runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libdmx.x86_64`

The X.Org X11 DMX (Distributed Multihead X) runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libdmx.x86_64

How To Uninstall libdmx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libdmx.x86_64

libdmx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libdmx.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdmx.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libdmx-1.1.3
/usr/share/doc/libdmx-1.1.3/COPYING

References

libdmx.x86_64 website

Summary

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