How To Install libXfont2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXfont2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXfont2.x86_64 is X.Org X11 libXfont2 runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXfont2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libXfont2.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXfont2 runtime library

We can use yum to install libXfont2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXfont2.x86_64.

Install libXfont2.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 libXfont2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXfont2.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXfont2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libXfont2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libXfont2.x86_64

libXfont2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXfont2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libXfont2.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXfont2-2.0.3
/usr/share/doc/libXfont2-2.0.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXfont2-2.0.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXfont2-2.0.3/README
/usr/share/licenses/libXfont2-2.0.3
/usr/share/licenses/libXfont2-2.0.3/COPYING

References

libXfont2.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXfont2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.