How To Install libidn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libidn2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libidn2.x86_64 is Library to support IDNA2008 internationalized domain names

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libidn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libidn2.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libidn2.x86_64.

Install libidn2.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 libidn2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libidn2.x86_64

How To Uninstall libidn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libidn2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libidn2.x86_64

libidn2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libidn2.so.0
/usr/lib64/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

References

libidn2.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libidn2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.