How To Install voikko-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install voikko-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. voikko-tools.x86_64 is Test tools for libvoikko

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install voikko-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `voikko-tools.x86_64`

This package contains voikkospell and voikkohyphenate, small command line tools for testing libvoikko. These tools may also be useful for shell scripts.

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

Install voikko-tools.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 voikko-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install voikko-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall voikko-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the voikko-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove voikko-tools.x86_64

voikko-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/voikkogc
/usr/bin/voikkohyphenate
/usr/bin/voikkospell
/usr/bin/voikkovfstc
/usr/share/man/man1/voikkogc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voikkohyphenate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voikkospell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voikkovfstc.1.gz

References

voikko-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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