How To Install enchant.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. enchant.x86_64 is An Enchanting Spell Checking Library

Introduction

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

What is `enchant.x86_64`

A library that wraps other spell checking backends.

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

Install enchant.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 enchant.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install enchant.x86_64

How To Uninstall enchant.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove enchant.x86_64

enchant.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/enchant
/usr/bin/enchant-lsmod
/usr/lib64/enchant
/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so
/usr/lib64/libenchant.so.1
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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