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

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-xinit-session.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xorg-x11-xinit-session.x86_64 is Display manager support for ~/.xsession and ~/.Xclients

Introduction

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

What is `xorg-x11-xinit-session.x86_64`

Allows legacy ~/.xsession and ~/.Xclients files to be used from display managers

We can use yum to install xorg-x11-xinit-session.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-xinit-session.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install xorg-x11-xinit-session.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove xorg-x11-xinit-session.x86_64

xorg-x11-xinit-session.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/libexec/xinit-compat
/usr/share/xsessions/xinit-compat.desktop

References

xorg-x11-xinit-session.x86_64 website

Summary

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