How To Install libXScrnSaver.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXScrnSaver.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXss runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXScrnSaver.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXScrnSaver.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXScrnSaver.x86_64

libXScrnSaver.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXss.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXss.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXScrnSaver-1.2.2
/usr/share/doc/libXScrnSaver-1.2.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXScrnSaver-1.2.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXScrnSaver-1.2.2/README

References

libXScrnSaver.x86_64 website

Summary

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