How To Install libXfont.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXfont.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library

We can use yum to install libXfont.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libXfont.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXfont.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXfont.x86_64

libXfont.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXfont.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXfont.so.1.4.1
/usr/share/doc/libXfont-1.5.4
/usr/share/doc/libXfont-1.5.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXfont-1.5.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXfont-1.5.4/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXfont-1.5.4/README

References

libXfont.x86_64 website

Summary

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