How To Install xcb-util-wm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xcb-util-wm.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xcb-util-wm.x86_64 is Client and window-manager helper library on top of libxcb

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xcb-util-wm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `xcb-util-wm.x86_64`

XCB util-wm module provides the following libraries - ewmh - icccm

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

Install xcb-util-wm.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 xcb-util-wm.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xcb-util-wm.x86_64

How To Uninstall xcb-util-wm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the xcb-util-wm.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove xcb-util-wm.x86_64

xcb-util-wm.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libxcb-ewmh.so.2
/usr/lib64/libxcb-ewmh.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/libxcb-icccm.so.4
/usr/lib64/libxcb-icccm.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/xcb-util-wm-0.4.1
/usr/share/doc/xcb-util-wm-0.4.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xcb-util-wm-0.4.1/README

References

xcb-util-wm.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xcb-util-wm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.