How To Install libXcomposite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXcomposite.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libXcomposite.i686 is X Composite Extension library

Introduction

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

What is `libXcomposite.i686`

X Composite Extension library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXcomposite.i686

How To Uninstall libXcomposite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXcomposite.i686

libXcomposite.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1
/usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXcomposite-0.4.4
/usr/share/doc/libXcomposite-0.4.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXcomposite-0.4.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXcomposite-0.4.4/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXcomposite-0.4.4/README

References

libXcomposite.i686 website

Summary

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