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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libglvnd-glx.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libglvnd-glx.x86_64 is GLX support for libglvnd

Introduction

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

What is `libglvnd-glx.x86_64`

libGL and libGLX are the common dispatch interface for the GLX API.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libglvnd-glx.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libglvnd-glx.x86_64

libglvnd-glx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.7.0
/usr/lib64/libGLX.so.0
/usr/lib64/libGLX.so.0.0.0

References

libglvnd-glx.x86_64 website

Summary

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