How To Install libX11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libX11.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libX11.i686 is Core X11 protocol client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libX11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libX11.i686`

Core X11 protocol client library.

We can use yum to install libX11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libX11.i686.

Install libX11.i686 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 libX11.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libX11.i686

How To Uninstall libX11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libX11.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libX11.i686

libX11.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1
/usr/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0

References

libX11.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libX11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.