How To Install teckit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is teckit.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.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install teckit.x86_64

How To Uninstall teckit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove teckit.x86_64

teckit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/sfconv
/usr/bin/teckit_compile
/usr/bin/txtconv
/usr/lib64/libTECkit.so.0
/usr/lib64/libTECkit.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libTECkit_Compiler.so.0
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.