How To Install libxkbcommon-x11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon-x11.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libxkbcommon-x11.i686 is X.Org X11 XKB keymap creation library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon-x11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libxkbcommon-x11.i686`

libxkbcommon-x11 is the X.Org library for creating keymaps by querying the X server.

We can use yum to install libxkbcommon-x11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libxkbcommon-x11.i686.

Install libxkbcommon-x11.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 libxkbcommon-x11.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libxkbcommon-x11.i686

How To Uninstall libxkbcommon-x11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libxkbcommon-x11.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libxkbcommon-x11.i686

libxkbcommon-x11.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libxkbcommon-x11.so.0
/usr/lib/libxkbcommon-x11.so.0.0.0

References

libxkbcommon-x11.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxkbcommon-x11.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.