How To Install libkkc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkkc.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libkkc.x86_64 is Japanese Kana Kanji conversion library

Introduction

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

What is `libkkc.x86_64`

libkkc provides a converter from Kana-string to Kana-Kanji-mixed-string. It was named after kkc.el in GNU Emacs, a simple Kana Kanji converter, while libkkc tries to convert sentences in a bit more complex way using N-gram language models.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libkkc.x86_64

How To Uninstall libkkc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libkkc.x86_64

libkkc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Kkc-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libkkc.so.2
/usr/lib64/libkkc.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libkkc-0.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libkkc-0.3.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libkkc-0.3.1/README
/usr/share/doc/libkkc-0.3.1/README.rules
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libkkc.mo

References

libkkc.x86_64 website

Summary

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