How To Install libunistring.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunistring.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libunistring.x86_64 is GNU Unicode string library

Introduction

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

What is `libunistring.x86_64`

This portable C library implements Unicode string types in three flavours character processing (names, classifications, properties) and functions for string processing (iteration, formatted output, width, word breaks, line breaks, normalization, case folding and regular expressions).

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

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

sudo yum -y install libunistring.x86_64

How To Uninstall libunistring.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libunistring.x86_64

libunistring.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libunistring.so.0
/usr/lib64/libunistring.so.0.1.2
/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.3
/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.3/README

References

libunistring.x86_64 website

Summary

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