How To Install libglvnd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libglvnd.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libglvnd.i686 is The GL Vendor-Neutral Dispatch library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libglvnd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libglvnd.i686`

libglvnd is an implementation of the vendor-neutral dispatch layer for arbitrating OpenGL API calls between multiple vendors on a per-screen basis.

We can use yum to install libglvnd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libglvnd.i686.

Install libglvnd.i686 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.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libglvnd.i686

How To Uninstall libglvnd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libglvnd.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libglvnd.i686

libglvnd.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/glvnd
/usr/lib/libGLdispatch.so.0
/usr/lib/libGLdispatch.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libglvnd-1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libglvnd-1.0.1/README.md
/usr/share/glvnd

References

libglvnd.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libglvnd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.