How To Install motif.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install motif.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. motif.x86_64 is Run-time libraries and programs

Introduction

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

What is `motif.x86_64`

This is the Motif 2.3.4 run-time environment. It includes the Motif shared libraries, needed to run applications which are dynamically linked against Motif and the Motif Window Manager mwm.

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

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

sudo yum -y install motif.x86_64

How To Uninstall motif.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove motif.x86_64

motif.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/X11/mwm
/etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xmbind.sh
/usr/bin/mwm
/usr/bin/xmbind
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_error
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_hour16
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_hour16m
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_hour32
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_hour32m
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_information
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_noenter16
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_noenter16m
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_noenter32
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_noenter32m
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_question
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_warning
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xm_working
/usr/lib64/libMrm.so.4
/usr/lib64/libMrm.so.4.0.4
/usr/lib64/libUil.so.4
/usr/lib64/libUil.so.4.0.4
/usr/lib64/libXm.so.4
/usr/lib64/libXm.so.4.0.4
/usr/share/X11/bindings
/usr/share/X11/bindings/acorn
/usr/share/X11/bindings/apollo
/usr/share/X11/bindings/dec
/usr/share/X11/bindings/dg_AViiON
/usr/share/X11/bindings/doubleclick
/usr/share/X11/bindings/hal
/usr/share/X11/bindings/hitachi
/usr/share/X11/bindings/hp
/usr/share/X11/bindings/ibm
/usr/share/X11/bindings/intergraph
/usr/share/X11/bindings/intergraph17
/usr/share/X11/bindings/megatek
/usr/share/X11/bindings/motorola
/usr/share/X11/bindings/ncr_at
/usr/share/X11/bindings/ncr_vt
/usr/share/X11/bindings/pc
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sgi
/usr/share/X11/bindings/siemens_9733
/usr/share/X11/bindings/siemens_wx200
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sni
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sni_97801
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sony
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sun
/usr/share/X11/bindings/sun_at
/usr/share/X11/bindings/tek
/usr/share/X11/bindings/xmbind.alias
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4/README
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4/RELEASE
/usr/share/doc/motif-2.3.4/RELNOTES
/usr/share/man/man1/mwm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xmbind.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man4/mwmrc.4.gz

References

motif.x86_64 website

Summary

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