How To Install libXau on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libXau on CentOS 8.
What is libXau
This is a very simple mechanism for providing individual access to an X Window System display.It uses existing core protocol and library hooks for specifying authorization data in the connection setup block to restrict use of the display to only those clients that show that they know a server-specific key called a “magic cookie”. libXau 1.0.9 3.el8 x86_64 37 k libXau-1.0.9-3.el8.src.rpm appstream Sample Authorization Protocol for X http MIT This is a very simple mechanism for providing individual access to an X Window System display.It uses existing core protocol and library hooks for specifying authorization data in the connection setup block to restrict use of the display to only those clients that show that they know a server-specific key called a “magic cookie”.
We can use yum or dnf to install libXau on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXau.
Install libXau on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libXau using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libXau
Install libXau on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libXau using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libXau
How To Uninstall libXau on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libXau package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libXau
libXau Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/12ac62afc7e358d64dc651d03cedd23cc430ef
/usr/lib64/libXau.so.6
/usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXau
/usr/share/doc/libXau/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXau/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXau/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXau/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/5dca772350c7c3f2d3570bc91bce08b2883ae2
/usr/lib/libXau.so.6
/usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXau
/usr/share/doc/libXau/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXau/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXau/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libXau/README
References
- [libXau website](http://www.x.org http://www.x.org)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libXau on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.