How To Install idn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. idn2.x86_64 is IDNA2008 internationalized domain names conversion tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `idn2.x86_64`

The idn2 package contains the idn2 command line tool for testing IDNA2008 conversions.

We can use yum to install idn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install idn2.x86_64.

Install idn2.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 idn2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install idn2.x86_64

How To Uninstall idn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the idn2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove idn2.x86_64

idn2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/idn2
/usr/share/info/libidn2.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/idn2.1.gz

References

idn2.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.