How To Install libevdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libevdev.x86_64 is Kernel Evdev Device Wrapper Library

Introduction

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

What is `libevdev.x86_64`

libevdev is a library to wrap kernel evdev devices and provide a proper API to interact with those devices.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libevdev.x86_64

How To Uninstall libevdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libevdev.x86_64

libevdev.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libevdev.so.2
/usr/lib64/libevdev.so.2.1.18
/usr/share/doc/libevdev-1.5.6
/usr/share/doc/libevdev-1.5.6/COPYING

References

libevdev.x86_64 website

Summary

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