How To Install libwayland-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-server.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libwayland-server.x86_64 is Wayland server library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libwayland-server.x86_64`

Wayland server library

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

Install libwayland-server.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 libwayland-server.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libwayland-server.x86_64

How To Uninstall libwayland-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libwayland-server.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libwayland-server.x86_64

libwayland-server.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libwayland-server.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwayland-server.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-server-1.17.0
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-server-1.17.0/COPYING

References

libwayland-server.x86_64 website

Summary

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