How To Install libidn2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libidn2.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libidn2.i686 is Library to support IDNA2008 internationalized domain names

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libidn2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libidn2.i686

Libidn2 is an implementation of the IDNA2008 specifications in RFC 5890, 5891, 5892, 5893 and TR46 for internationalized domain names (IDN). It is a standalone library, without any dependency on libidn.

We can use yum to install libidn2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libidn2.i686.

Install libidn2.i686 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 libidn2.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libidn2.i686

How To Uninstall libidn2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libidn2.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libidn2.i686

libidn2.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libidn2.so.0
/usr/lib/libidn2.so.0.3.7
/usr/share/doc/libidn2-2.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libidn2-2.3.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libidn2-2.3.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libidn2-2.3.0/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libidn2-2.3.0
/usr/share/licenses/libidn2-2.3.0/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libidn2-2.3.0/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/libidn2-2.3.0/COPYING.unicode
/usr/share/licenses/libidn2-2.3.0/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libidn2.mo

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libidn2.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.