How To Install libidn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libidn.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libidn.x86_64 is Internationalized Domain Name support library

Introduction

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

What is `libidn.x86_64`

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libidn.x86_64

How To Uninstall libidn.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libidn.x86_64

libidn.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/idn
/usr/lib64/libidn.so.11
/usr/lib64/libidn.so.11.6.11
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYING.LESSERv2
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/COPYINGv3
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/README
/usr/share/doc/libidn-1.28/THANKS
/usr/share/info/libidn.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libidn.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/idn.1.gz

References

libidn.x86_64 website

Summary

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