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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXau-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXau-devel.x86_64 is Development files for libXau

Introduction

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

What is `libXau-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXau development package

We can use yum to install libXau-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 libXau-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libXau-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libXau-devel.x86_64

libXau-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/Xauth.h
/usr/lib64/libXau.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xau.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/Xau.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XauDisposeAuth.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XauFileName.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XauGetAuthByAddr.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XauGetBestAuthByAddr.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XauLockAuth.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XauReadAuth.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XauUnlockAuth.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XauWriteAuth.3.gz

References

libXau-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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