How To Install libXrandr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXrandr.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXrandr runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXrandr.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXrandr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXrandr.x86_64

libXrandr.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXrandr.so.2
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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