How To Install libXv.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXv.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXv runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXv.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXv.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXv.x86_64

libXv.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libXv.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXv.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXv-1.0.11
/usr/share/doc/libXv-1.0.11/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXv-1.0.11/COPYING

References

libXv.x86_64 website

Summary

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