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

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

Introduction

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

What is libXinerama-devel.x86_64

X.Org X11 libXinerama development package

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXinerama-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libXinerama-devel.x86_64

libXinerama-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xinerama.h
/usr/include/X11/extensions/panoramiXext.h
/usr/lib64/libXinerama.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xinerama.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/Xinerama.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XineramaIsActive.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XineramaQueryExtension.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XineramaQueryScreens.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/XineramaQueryVersion.3.gz

References

Summary

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