How To Install caribou.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install caribou.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. caribou.x86_64 is A simplified in-place on-screen keyboard

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install caribou.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `caribou.x86_64`

Caribou is a text entry application that currently manifests itself as a simplified in-place on-screen keyboard.

We can use yum to install caribou.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install caribou.x86_64.

Install caribou.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install caribou.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install caribou.x86_64

How To Uninstall caribou.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the caribou.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove caribou.x86_64

caribou.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/xdg/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop
/usr/bin/caribou-preferences
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Caribou-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/gtk-modules/caribou-gtk-module.desktop
/usr/lib64/libcaribou.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcaribou.so.0.0.0
/usr/libexec/caribou
/usr/share/caribou
/usr/share/caribou/layouts
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/scan
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/scan/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/ara.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/fr.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/il.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/us.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Caribou.Daemon.service
/usr/share/doc/caribou-0.4.21
/usr/share/doc/caribou-0.4.21/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/caribou-0.4.21/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.caribou.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/caribou-0.4.21
/usr/share/licenses/caribou-0.4.21/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo

References

caribou.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install caribou.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.