How To Install iok.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install iok.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. iok.x86_64 is Indic Onscreen Virtual Keyboard

Introduction

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

What is `iok.x86_64`

iok is Indic Onscreen Keyboard. It provides virtual Keyboard functionality. It currently works with Inscript and xkb keymaps for Indian languages. iok can even try to parse non-inscript keymaps and show them in iok.

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

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

sudo yum -y install iok.x86_64

How To Uninstall iok.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove iok.x86_64

iok.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/iok
/usr/share/applications/iok.desktop
/usr/share/doc/iok-2.1.3
/usr/share/doc/iok-2.1.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/iok-2.1.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/iok-2.1.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/iok-2.1.3/README
/usr/share/doc/iok-2.1.3/README.old
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/iok.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/iok.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/iok.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/iok.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/iok.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/iok.svg
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/bho/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/brx/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/doi/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/hne/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/mni/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/sa/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/sat/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/sd/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/iok.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/iok.1.gz

References

iok.x86_64 website

Summary

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