How To Install xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 is X.Org X11 driver installation package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64

The purpose of this package is to require all of the individual X.Org driver rpms, to allow the OS installation software to install all drivers all at once, without having to track which individual drivers are present on each architecture. By installing this package, it forces all of the individual driver packages to be installed.

We can use yum to install xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64.

Install xorg-x11-drivers.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 xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64

How To Uninstall xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64

xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.