How To Install libXrandr.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXrandr.i686`

X.Org X11 libXrandr runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXrandr.i686

How To Uninstall libXrandr.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXrandr.i686

libXrandr.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2
/usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libXrandr-1.5.1
/usr/share/doc/libXrandr-1.5.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXrandr-1.5.1/COPYING

References

libXrandr.i686 website

Summary

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