How To Install imsettings-qt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install imsettings-qt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. imsettings-qt.x86_64 is Qt support on imsettings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install imsettings-qt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `imsettings-qt.x86_64`

IMSettings is a framework that delivers Input Method settings and applies the changes so they take effect immediately without any need to restart applications or the desktop. This package contains a module to get this working on Qt applications.

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

Install imsettings-qt.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 imsettings-qt.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install imsettings-qt.x86_64

How To Uninstall imsettings-qt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the imsettings-qt.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove imsettings-qt.x86_64

imsettings-qt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/imsettings/libimsettings-qt.so
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-qt-1.6.3
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-qt-1.6.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-qt-1.6.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-qt-1.6.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-qt-1.6.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-qt-1.6.3/README

References

imsettings-qt.x86_64 website

Summary

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