How To Install libXvMC.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libXvMC.x86_64`

X.Org X11 libXvMC runtime library

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

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

sudo yum -y install libXvMC.x86_64

How To Uninstall libXvMC.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libXvMC.x86_64

libXvMC.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/X11/XvMCConfig
/usr/lib64/libXvMC.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXvMC.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libXvMCW.so.1
/usr/lib64/libXvMCW.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXvMC-1.0.10
/usr/share/doc/libXvMC-1.0.10/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXvMC-1.0.10/README

References

libXvMC.x86_64 website

Summary

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