How To Install libXp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXp.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXp runtime library

We can use yum to install libXp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXp.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libXp.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXp.x86_64

libXp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXp.so.6
/usr/lib64/libXp.so.6.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libXp-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libXp-1.0.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXp-1.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXp-1.0.2/ChangeLog

References

libXp.x86_64 website

Summary

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