How To Install libXpm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXpm.i686`

X.Org X11 libXpm runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXpm.i686

How To Uninstall libXpm.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXpm.i686

libXpm.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXpm.so.4
/usr/lib/libXpm.so.4.11.0
/usr/share/doc/libXpm-3.5.12
/usr/share/doc/libXpm-3.5.12/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXpm-3.5.12/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXpm-3.5.12/ChangeLog

References

libXpm.i686 website

Summary

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