How To Install libXdmcp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXdmcp.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXdmcp.x86_64 is X Display Manager Control Protocol library

Introduction

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

What is `libXdmcp.x86_64`

X Display Manager Control Protocol library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXdmcp.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXdmcp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXdmcp.x86_64

libXdmcp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6
/usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXdmcp-1.1.2/Wraphelp.README.crypto

References

libXdmcp.x86_64 website

Summary

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