How To Install libpinyin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpinyin.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpinyin.x86_64 is Library to deal with pinyin

Introduction

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

What is `libpinyin.x86_64`

The libpinyin project aims to provide the algorithms core for intelligent sentence-based Chinese pinyin input methods.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libpinyin.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpinyin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libpinyin.x86_64

libpinyin.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpinyin
/usr/lib64/libpinyin.so.4
/usr/lib64/libpinyin.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin-0.9.93
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin-0.9.93/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin-0.9.93/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libpinyin-0.9.93/README

References

libpinyin.x86_64 website

Summary

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