How To Install enchant.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. enchant.i686 is An Enchanting Spell Checking Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `enchant.i686`

A library that wraps other spell checking backends.

We can use yum to install enchant.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install enchant.i686.

Install enchant.i686 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 enchant.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install enchant.i686

How To Uninstall enchant.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the enchant.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove enchant.i686

enchant.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/enchant
/usr/bin/enchant-lsmod
/usr/lib/enchant
/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so
/usr/lib/libenchant.so.1
/usr/lib/libenchant.so.1.6.0
/usr/share/doc/enchant-1.6.0
/usr/share/doc/enchant-1.6.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/enchant-1.6.0/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/enchant-1.6.0/README
/usr/share/enchant
/usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering
/usr/share/man/man1/enchant.1.gz

References

enchant.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.