How To Install libXfixes.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXfixes.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libXfixes.i686 is X Fixes library

Introduction

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

What is `libXfixes.i686`

X Fixes library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXfixes.i686

How To Uninstall libXfixes.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXfixes.i686

libXfixes.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3
/usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libXfixes-5.0.3
/usr/share/doc/libXfixes-5.0.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXfixes-5.0.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXfixes-5.0.3/README

References

libXfixes.i686 website

Summary

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