How To Install libXcomposite.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXcomposite.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXcomposite.x86_64 is X Composite Extension library

Introduction

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

What is `libXcomposite.x86_64`

X Composite Extension library

We can use yum to install libXcomposite.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libXcomposite.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXcomposite.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXcomposite.x86_64

libXcomposite.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXcomposite.so.1
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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