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

Introduction

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

What is libXfont-devel.x86_64

X.Org X11 libXfont development package

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXfont-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libXfont-devel.x86_64

libXfont-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/fonts/bdfint.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/bitmap.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/bufio.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fntfil.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fntfilio.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fntfilst.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fontconf.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fontencc.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fontmisc.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fontshow.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fontutil.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/fontxlfd.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/ft.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/ftfuncs.h
/usr/include/X11/fonts/pcf.h
/usr/lib64/libXfont.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xfont.pc

References

• libXfont-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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