How To Install libxshmfence.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libxshmfence.x86_64 is X11 shared memory fences

Introduction

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

What is `libxshmfence.x86_64`

Shared memory fences for X11, as used in DRI3.

We can use yum to install libxshmfence.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libxshmfence.x86_64

How To Uninstall libxshmfence.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libxshmfence.x86_64

libxshmfence.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libxshmfence.so.1
/usr/lib64/libxshmfence.so.1.0.0

References

libxshmfence.x86_64 website

Summary

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