How To Install pcre2-utf16.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre2-utf16.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. pcre2-utf16.i686 is UTF-16 variant of PCRE2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre2-utf16.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pcre2-utf16.i686`

This is PCRE2 library working on UTF-16 strings.

We can use yum to install pcre2-utf16.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcre2-utf16.i686.

Install pcre2-utf16.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 pcre2-utf16.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcre2-utf16.i686

How To Uninstall pcre2-utf16.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pcre2-utf16.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pcre2-utf16.i686

pcre2-utf16.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libpcre2-16.so.0
/usr/lib/libpcre2-16.so.0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/pcre2-utf16-10.23
/usr/share/doc/pcre2-utf16-10.23/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pcre2-utf16-10.23/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pcre2-utf16-10.23/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/pcre2-utf16-10.23
/usr/share/licenses/pcre2-utf16-10.23/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/pcre2-utf16-10.23/LICENCE

References

pcre2-utf16.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre2-utf16.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.