How To Install libxshmfence.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libxshmfence.i686 is X11 shared memory fences

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libxshmfence.i686`

Shared memory fences for X11, as used in DRI3.

We can use yum to install libxshmfence.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libxshmfence.i686.

Install libxshmfence.i686 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.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libxshmfence.i686

How To Uninstall libxshmfence.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libxshmfence.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libxshmfence.i686

libxshmfence.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libxshmfence.so.1
/usr/lib/libxshmfence.so.1.0.0

References

libxshmfence.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.