How To Install libxshmfence on CentOS 8

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence on CentOS 8.

What is libxshmfence

Shared memory fences for X11, as used in DRI3. libxshmfence 1.3 2.el8 x86_64 13 k libxshmfence-1.3-2.el8.src.rpm appstream X11 shared memory fences https MIT Shared memory fences for X11, as used in DRI3.

We can use yum or dnf to install libxshmfence on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libxshmfence.

Install libxshmfence 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 libxshmfence using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libxshmfence

Install libxshmfence 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 libxshmfence using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libxshmfence

How To Uninstall libxshmfence on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the libxshmfence package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libxshmfence

libxshmfence Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/ac9b12ca7fc3c2f88fa27f1cb37d46336ab882
/usr/lib/libxshmfence.so.1
/usr/lib/libxshmfence.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/b8b10a35dd8143e037a53c27c00c3e20fd0a59
/usr/lib64/libxshmfence.so.1
/usr/lib64/libxshmfence.so.1.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.