How To Install libglvnd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libglvnd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libglvnd.x86_64 is The GL Vendor-Neutral Dispatch library

Introduction

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

What is `libglvnd.x86_64`

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.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libglvnd.x86_64

How To Uninstall libglvnd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libglvnd.x86_64

libglvnd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/glvnd
/usr/lib64/libGLdispatch.so.0
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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