How To Install libicu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libicu.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libicu.x86_64 is International Components for Unicode - libraries

Introduction

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

What is `libicu.x86_64`

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode standard, and they provide support for supplementary Unicode characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support). As computing environments become more heterogeneous, software portability becomes more important. ICU lets you produce the same results across all the various platforms you support, without sacrificing performance. It offers great flexibility to extend and customize the supplied services.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libicu.x86_64

How To Uninstall libicu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libicu.x86_64

libicu.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libicudata.so.50
/usr/lib64/libicudata.so.50.2
/usr/lib64/libicui18n.so.50
/usr/lib64/libicui18n.so.50.2
/usr/lib64/libicuio.so.50
/usr/lib64/libicuio.so.50.2
/usr/lib64/libicule.so.50
/usr/lib64/libicule.so.50.2
/usr/lib64/libiculx.so.50
/usr/lib64/libiculx.so.50.2
/usr/lib64/libicutest.so.50
/usr/lib64/libicutest.so.50.2
/usr/lib64/libicutu.so.50
/usr/lib64/libicutu.so.50.2
/usr/lib64/libicuuc.so.50
/usr/lib64/libicuuc.so.50.2
/usr/share/doc/libicu-50.2
/usr/share/doc/libicu-50.2/license.html
/usr/share/doc/libicu-50.2/readme.html

References

libicu.x86_64 website

Summary

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