How To Install libkkc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkkc on Rocky Linux 8. libkkc is Japanese Kana Kanji conversion library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkkc on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libkkc

libkkc provides a converter from Kana-string to Kana-Kanji-mixed-string. It was named after kkc.el in GNU Emacs, a simple Kana Kanji converter, while libkkc tries to convert sentences in a bit more complex way using N-gram language models.

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

Install libkkc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libkkc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libkkc

Install libkkc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libkkc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libkkc

How To Uninstall libkkc on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libkkc

libkkc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/b0fbff455364e7c3cc0f2f5ff698cb4a1f63b1
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Kkc-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libkkc.so.2
/usr/lib64/libkkc.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libkkc
/usr/share/doc/libkkc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libkkc/README
/usr/share/doc/libkkc/README.rules
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libkkc.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/1de60cd4f65edb96221b1fc3467bc80fa3cb76
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Kkc-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libkkc.so.2
/usr/lib/libkkc.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libkkc
/usr/share/doc/libkkc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libkkc/README
/usr/share/doc/libkkc/README.rules
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libkkc.mo

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkkc on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.