How To Install libXinerama.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXinerama.i686`

X.Org X11 libXinerama runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXinerama.i686

How To Uninstall libXinerama.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXinerama.i686

libXinerama.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXinerama-1.1.3
/usr/share/doc/libXinerama-1.1.3/COPYING

References

libXinerama.i686 website

Summary

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