How To Install libpinyin on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpinyin on Rocky Linux 8. libpinyin is Library to deal with pinyin

Introduction

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

What is libpinyin

The libpinyin project aims to provide the algorithms core for intelligent sentence-based Chinese pinyin input methods.

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

Install libpinyin 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 libpinyin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpinyin

Install libpinyin 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 libpinyin using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpinyin

How To Uninstall libpinyin on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libpinyin

libpinyin Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/bafcec20d915b4f7296f0d6f0d6f9c35e900fd
/usr/lib64/libpinyin
/usr/lib64/libpinyin.so.13
/usr/lib64/libpinyin.so.13.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/19e6c69f675ada4d15cf316e2cec98f13d7950
/usr/lib/libpinyin
/usr/lib/libpinyin.so.13
/usr/lib/libpinyin.so.13.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin/README

References

Summary

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