How To Install libXau on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libXau
on CentOS 7.
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”. 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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXau.
Install libXau on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libXau
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libXau on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libXau
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libXau on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libXau
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libXau
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.