How To Install libICE.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libICE.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libICE.x86_64 is X.Org X11 ICE runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libICE.x86_64`

The X.Org X11 ICE (Inter-Client Exchange) runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libICE.x86_64

How To Uninstall libICE.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libICE.x86_64

libICE.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libICE.so.6
/usr/lib64/libICE.so.6.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libICE
/usr/share/doc/libICE/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libICE/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libICE/ChangeLog

References

libICE.x86_64 website

Summary

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