How To Install libXi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXi.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libXi.i686 is X.Org X11 libXi runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libXi.i686`

X.Org X11 libXi runtime library

We can use yum to install libXi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXi.i686.

Install libXi.i686 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 libXi.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXi.i686

How To Uninstall libXi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libXi.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libXi.i686

libXi.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXi.so.6
/usr/lib/libXi.so.6.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libXi-1.7.9
/usr/share/doc/libXi-1.7.9/COPYING

References

libXi.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.