How To Install metacity-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. metacity-devel.x86_64 is Development files for metacity

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is metacity-devel.x86_64

This package contains the files needed for compiling programs using the metacity-private library. Note that you are not supposed to write programs using the metacity-private library, since it is a private API. This package exists purely for technical reasons.

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

Install metacity-devel.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 metacity-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install metacity-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall metacity-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the metacity-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove metacity-devel.x86_64

metacity-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/metacity-theme-viewer
/usr/bin/metacity-window-demo
/usr/include/metacity-1
/usr/include/metacity-1/metacity-private
/usr/include/metacity-1/metacity-private/boxes.h
/usr/include/metacity-1/metacity-private/common.h
/usr/include/metacity-1/metacity-private/gradient.h
/usr/include/metacity-1/metacity-private/preview-widget.h
/usr/include/metacity-1/metacity-private/theme-parser.h
/usr/include/metacity-1/metacity-private/theme.h
/usr/include/metacity-1/metacity-private/util.h
/usr/lib64/libmetacity-private.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libmetacity-private.pc
/usr/share/man/man1/metacity-theme-viewer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/metacity-window-demo.1.gz

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Summary

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