How To Install mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 is Mesa offscreen rendering libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64`

Mesa offscreen rendering libraries

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

Install mesa-libOSMesa.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 mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64

How To Uninstall mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64

mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so.8
/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so.8.0.0

References

mesa-libOSMesa.x86_64 website

Summary

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