How To Install libXext.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXext.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXext.x86_64 is X.Org X11 libXext runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libXext.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXext runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXext.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXext.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXext.x86_64

libXext.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6
/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0
/usr/share/doc/libXext-1.3.3
/usr/share/doc/libXext-1.3.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXext-1.3.3/COPYING

References

libXext.x86_64 website

Summary

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