How To Install teckit-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install teckit-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. teckit-devel.x86_64 is Conversion library and mapping compiler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install teckit-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is teckit-devel.x86_64

TECkit is a low-level toolkit intended to be used by other applications that need to perform encoding conversions (e.g., when importing legacy data into a Unicode-based application). The primary component of the TECkit package is therefore a library that performs conversions; this is the “TECkit engine”. The engine relies on mapping tables in a specific binary format (for which documentation is available); there is a compiler that creates such tables from a human-readable mapping description (a simple text file).

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

Install teckit-devel.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 teckit-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install teckit-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall teckit-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the teckit-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove teckit-devel.x86_64

teckit-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/teckit
/usr/include/teckit/TECkit_Common.h
/usr/include/teckit/TECkit_Compiler.h
/usr/include/teckit/TECkit_Engine.h
/usr/lib64/libTECkit.so
/usr/lib64/libTECkit_Compiler.so
/usr/share/doc/teckit-devel-2.5.1
/usr/share/doc/teckit-devel-2.5.1/TECkit_Binary_Format.doc.pdf
/usr/share/doc/teckit-devel-2.5.1/TECkit_Language_2.1.doc.pdf
/usr/share/doc/teckit-devel-2.5.1/TECkit_version_2.1.doc.pdf

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Summary

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