How To Install libXft.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXft.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXft runtime library

We can use yum to install libXft.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libXft.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXft.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXft.x86_64

libXft.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib64/libXft.so.2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXft-2.3.2/README

References

libXft.x86_64 website

Summary

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