How To Install libinput.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinput.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libinput.x86_64
libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices. It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction so minimize the amount of custom input code the user of libinput need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect.
We can use yum
to install libinput.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libinput.x86_64.
Install libinput.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 libinput.x86_64
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libinput.x86_64
How To Uninstall libinput.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libinput.x86_64
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libinput.x86_64
libinput.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/libinput
/usr/bin/libinput-debug-events
/usr/bin/libinput-list-devices
/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/90-libinput-model-quirks.hwdb
/usr/lib/udev/libinput-device-group
/usr/lib/udev/libinput-model-quirks
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/80-libinput-device-groups.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-libinput-model-quirks.rules
/usr/lib64/libinput.so.10
/usr/lib64/libinput.so.10.13.0
/usr/libexec/libinput
/usr/libexec/libinput/libinput-debug-events
/usr/libexec/libinput/libinput-list-devices
/usr/libexec/libinput/libinput-measure
/usr/libexec/libinput/libinput-measure-touchpad-tap
/usr/share/doc/libinput-1.8.4
/usr/share/doc/libinput-1.8.4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/libinput-debug-events.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/libinput-list-devices.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/libinput-measure-touchpad-tap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/libinput-measure.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/libinput.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinput.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.