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

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXcomposite-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXcomposite development package

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXcomposite-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libXcomposite-devel.x86_64

libXcomposite-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xcomposite.h
/usr/lib64/libXcomposite.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xcomposite.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeCreateRegionFromBorderClip.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeGetOverlayWindow.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeNameWindowPixmap.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeQueryExtension.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeQueryVersion.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeRedirectSubwindows.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeRedirectWindow.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeReleaseOverlayWindow.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeUnredirectSubwindows.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeUnredirectWindow.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XCompositeVersion.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Xcomposite.3.gz

References

libXcomposite-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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