How To Install uchardet on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install uchardet on Rocky Linux 8. uchardet is An encoding detector library ported from Mozilla

Introduction

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

What is uchardet

Uchardet is a C language binding of the original C++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by Mozilla. Uchardet is an encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.

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

Install uchardet 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 uchardet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install uchardet

Install uchardet 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 uchardet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uchardet

How To Uninstall uchardet on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove uchardet

uchardet Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/uchardet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/123c52afaaa802fc6b95d0a1a787b13b4b024b
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/272b768d660728eba1ec4fdf763fb6c26a6ff1
/usr/lib64/libuchardet.so.0
/usr/lib64/libuchardet.so.0.0.6
/usr/share/doc/uchardet
/usr/share/doc/uchardet/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/uchardet
/usr/share/licenses/uchardet/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/uchardet.1.gz

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Summary

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