How To Install libXrender-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXrender-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXrender-devel.x86_64 is X.Org X11 libXrender development package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXrender-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libXrender-devel.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXrender development package

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

Install libXrender-devel.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 libXrender-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXrender-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXrender-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libXrender-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libXrender-devel.x86_64

libXrender-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h
/usr/lib64/libXrender.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xrender.pc
/usr/share/doc/libXrender-devel-0.9.10
/usr/share/doc/libXrender-devel-0.9.10/libXrender.txt

References

libXrender-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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