How To Install emacs-libidn.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-libidn.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. emacs-libidn.noarch is GNU Emacs libidn support files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-libidn.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `emacs-libidn.noarch`

This package includes libidn support files for GNU Emacs.

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

Install emacs-libidn.noarch 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 emacs-libidn.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-libidn.noarch

How To Uninstall emacs-libidn.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the emacs-libidn.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove emacs-libidn.noarch

emacs-libidn.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/libidn
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/libidn/idna.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/libidn/idna.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/libidn/punycode.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/libidn/punycode.elc

References

emacs-libidn.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-libidn.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.