How To Install pixman.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pixman.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. pixman.i686 is Pixel manipulation library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pixman.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pixman.i686`

Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and cairo.

We can use yum to install pixman.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pixman.i686.

Install pixman.i686 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 pixman.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pixman.i686

How To Uninstall pixman.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pixman.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pixman.i686

pixman.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0
/usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.34.0

References

pixman.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pixman.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.