How To Install pixman.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pixman.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pixman.x86_64 is Pixel manipulation library

Introduction

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

What is `pixman.x86_64`

Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and cairo.

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

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

sudo yum -y install pixman.x86_64

How To Uninstall pixman.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pixman.x86_64

pixman.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.34.0

References

pixman.x86_64 website

Summary

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