How To Install teckit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install teckit.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. teckit.i686 is Conversion library and mapping compiler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install teckit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is teckit.i686

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.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install teckit.i686.

Install teckit.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 teckit.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install teckit.i686

How To Uninstall teckit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the teckit.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove teckit.i686

teckit.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/sfconv
/usr/bin/teckit_compile
/usr/bin/txtconv
/usr/lib/libTECkit.so.0
/usr/lib/libTECkit.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libTECkit_Compiler.so.0
/usr/lib/libTECkit_Compiler.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1/LICENSING.txt
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1/License_CPLv05.txt
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1/License_LGPLv21.txt
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/teckit-2.5.1/README

References

Summary

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