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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXft-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXft-devel.x86_64 is X.Org X11 libXft development package

Introduction

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

What is `libXft-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXft development package

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXft-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libXft-devel.x86_64

libXft-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/Xft
/usr/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h
/usr/include/X11/Xft/XftCompat.h
/usr/lib64/libXft.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xft.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/Xft.3.gz

References

libXft-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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