How To Install libXaw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXaw.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXaw.x86_64 is X Athena Widget Set

Introduction

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

What is `libXaw.x86_64`

Xaw is a widget set based on the X Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt) Library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXaw.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXaw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXaw.x86_64

libXaw.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXaw.so.7
/usr/lib64/libXaw7.so.7
/usr/lib64/libXaw7.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXaw-1.0.13
/usr/share/doc/libXaw-1.0.13/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXaw-1.0.13/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXaw-1.0.13/README

References

libXaw.x86_64 website

Summary

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