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

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXfixes-devel.x86_64`

libXfixes development package

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXfixes-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libXfixes-devel.x86_64

libXfixes-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xfixes.h
/usr/lib64/libXfixes.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xfixes.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/Xfixes.3.gz

References

libXfixes-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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