How To Install libgxim.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgxim.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgxim.x86_64 is GObject-based XIM protocol library

Introduction

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

What is `libgxim.x86_64`

libgxim is a X Input Method protocol library that is implemented by GObject. this library helps you to implement XIM servers or client applications to communicate through XIM protocol without using Xlib API directly, particularly if your application uses GObject-based main loop. This package contains the shared library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgxim.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgxim.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgxim.x86_64

libgxim.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgxim.so.4
/usr/lib64/libgxim.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libgxim-0.5.0/README
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/libgxim.mo

References

libgxim.x86_64 website

Summary

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