How To Install libXau on Fedora 34

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXau on Fedora 34.

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 6.fc34 x86_64 31 k libXau-1.0.9-6.fc34.src.rpm fedora 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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXau.

Install libXau on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libXau

libXau Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/d2c74e12b2d174164e7ee35c95472d48c9ab91
/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/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/f1445a9914c76ad05035afebfc72a102c24649
/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

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXau on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.