How To Install libXres.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXres.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libXres.x86_64 is X-Resource extension client library

Introduction

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

What is `libXres.x86_64`

X-Resource is an extension that allows a client to query the X server about its usage of various resources.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXres.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXres.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXres.x86_64

libXres.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXRes.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXRes.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXres-1.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libXres-1.2.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXres-1.2.0/COPYING

References

libXres.x86_64 website

Summary

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