How To Install libchewing.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libchewing.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libchewing.x86_64 is Intelligent phonetic input method library for Traditional Chinese

Introduction

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

What is `libchewing.x86_64`

libchewing is an intelligent phonetic input method library for Chinese. It provides the core algorithm and logic that can be used by various input methods. The Chewing input method is a smart bopomofo phonetics input method that is useful for inputting Mandarin Chinese.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libchewing.x86_64

How To Uninstall libchewing.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libchewing.x86_64

libchewing.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libchewing
/usr/lib64/libchewing.so.3
/usr/lib64/libchewing.so.3.0.1
/usr/lib64/libchewing/ch_index_begin.dat
/usr/lib64/libchewing/ch_index_phone.dat
/usr/lib64/libchewing/dict.dat
/usr/lib64/libchewing/fonetree.dat
/usr/lib64/libchewing/ph_index.dat
/usr/lib64/libchewing/pinyin.tab
/usr/lib64/libchewing/swkb.dat
/usr/lib64/libchewing/symbols.dat
/usr/lib64/libchewing/us_freq.dat
/usr/share/doc/libchewing-0.3.4
/usr/share/doc/libchewing-0.3.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libchewing-0.3.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libchewing-0.3.4/README
/usr/share/info/libchewing.info.gz

References

libchewing.x86_64 website

Summary

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