How To Install libXtst.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXtst.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libXtst.i686 is X.Org X11 libXtst runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libXtst.i686`

X.Org X11 libXtst runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXtst.i686

How To Uninstall libXtst.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXtst.i686

libXtst.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXtst.so.6
/usr/lib/libXtst.so.6.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libXtst-1.2.3
/usr/share/doc/libXtst-1.2.3/COPYING

References

libXtst.i686 website

Summary

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