How To Install unicode-ucd on CentOS 8

unicode-ucd is Unicode Character Database

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unicode-ucd on CentOS 8.

What is unicode-ucd

The Unicode Character Database (UCD) consists of a number of data files listing Unicode character properties and related data. It also includes data files containing test data for conformance to several important Unicode algorithms.

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

Install unicode-ucd 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 unicode-ucd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unicode-ucd

Install unicode-ucd 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 unicode-ucd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unicode-ucd

How To Uninstall unicode-ucd on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the unicode-ucd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove unicode-ucd

unicode-ucd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/unicode-ucd
/usr/share/doc/unicode-ucd/copyright.html
/usr/share/unicode
/usr/share/unicode/ucd
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/ArabicShaping.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/BidiBrackets.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/BidiCharacterTest.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/BidiMirroring.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/BidiTest.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/Blocks.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/CJKRadicals.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/CaseFolding.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/CompositionExclusions.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/DerivedAge.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/DerivedCoreProperties.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/DerivedNormalizationProps.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/EastAsianWidth.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/EmojiSources.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/EquivalentUnifiedIdeograph.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/HangulSyllableType.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/Index.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/IndicPositionalCategory.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/IndicSyllabicCategory.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/Jamo.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/LineBreak.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/NameAliases.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/NamedSequences.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/NamedSequencesProv.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/NamesList.html
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/NamesList.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/NormalizationCorrections.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/NormalizationTest.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/NushuSources.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/PropList.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/PropertyAliases.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/PropertyValueAliases.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/ReadMe.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/ScriptExtensions.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/Scripts.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/SpecialCasing.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/StandardizedVariants.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/TangutSources.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/USourceData.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/USourceGlyphs.pdf
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/UnicodeData.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/VerticalOrientation.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/GraphemeBreakProperty.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/GraphemeBreakTest.html
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/GraphemeBreakTest.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/LineBreakTest.html
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/LineBreakTest.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/SentenceBreakProperty.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/SentenceBreakTest.html
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/SentenceBreakTest.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/WordBreakProperty.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/WordBreakTest.html
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/auxiliary/WordBreakTest.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedBidiClass.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedBinaryProperties.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedCombiningClass.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedDecompositionType.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedEastAsianWidth.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedGeneralCategory.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedJoiningGroup.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedJoiningType.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedLineBreak.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedName.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedNumericType.txt
/usr/share/unicode/ucd/extracted/DerivedNumericValues.txt

References

Summary

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