How To Install libXpm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXpm.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXpm runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXpm.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXpm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXpm.x86_64

libXpm.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXpm.so.4
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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