How To Install libSM-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libSM-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libSM-devel.x86_64 is X.Org X11 SM development package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libSM-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libSM-devel.x86_64`

The X.Org X11 SM (Session Management) development package.

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

Install libSM-devel.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 libSM-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libSM-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libSM-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libSM-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libSM-devel.x86_64

libSM-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/SM
/usr/include/X11/SM/SM.h
/usr/include/X11/SM/SMlib.h
/usr/include/X11/SM/SMproto.h
/usr/lib64/libSM.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/sm.pc

References

libSM-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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