How To Install fribidi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fribidi.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fribidi.x86_64 is Library implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

Introduction

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

What is `fribidi.x86_64`

A library to handle bidirectional scripts (for example Hebrew, Arabic), so that the display is done in the proper way; while the text data itself is always written in logical order.

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

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

sudo yum -y install fribidi.x86_64

How To Uninstall fribidi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove fribidi.x86_64

fribidi.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/fribidi
/usr/lib64/libfribidi.so.0
/usr/lib64/libfribidi.so.0.4.0
/usr/share/doc/fribidi-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/fribidi-1.0.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fribidi-1.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fribidi-1.0.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fribidi-1.0.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fribidi-1.0.2/README
/usr/share/doc/fribidi-1.0.2/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/fribidi-1.0.2/TODO

References

fribidi.x86_64 website

Summary

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