How To Install libX11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libX11.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libX11.x86_64 is Core X11 protocol client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libX11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libX11.x86_64`

Core X11 protocol client library.

We can use yum to install libX11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libX11.x86_64.

Install libX11.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 libX11.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libX11.x86_64

How To Uninstall libX11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libX11.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libX11.x86_64

libX11.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libX11-xcb.so.1
/usr/lib64/libX11-xcb.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libX11.so.6
/usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.3.0

References

libX11.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libX11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.