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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libxshmfence-devel.x86_64 is Development files for libxshmfence

Introduction

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

What is libxshmfence-devel.x86_64

The libxshmfence-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use libxshmfence.

We can use yum to install libxshmfence-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 libxshmfence-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libxshmfence-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libxshmfence-devel.x86_64

libxshmfence-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/X11
/usr/include/X11/xshmfence.h
/usr/lib64/libxshmfence.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xshmfence.pc

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Summary

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