How To Install enca on CentOS 8

enca is Character set analyzer and detector Character set analyzer and detector

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install enca on CentOS 8.

What is enca

Enca is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs. Currently, it has support for Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Ukrainian, Chinese and some multibyte encodings (mostly variants of Unicode) independent on the language. This package also contains shared Enca library other programs can make use of. Install enca if you need to cope with text files of dubious origin and unknown encoding and convert them to some reasonable encoding. enca 1.19 1.el8 x86_64 113 k enca-1.19-1.el8.src.rpm powertools Character set analyzer and detector http GPLv2 Enca is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs. Currently, it has support for Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Ukrainian, Chinese and some multibyte encodings (mostly variants of Unicode) independent on the language. This package also contains shared Enca library other programs can make use of. Install enca if you need to cope with text files of dubious origin and unknown encoding and convert them to some reasonable encoding.

We can use yum or dnf to install enca on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install enca.

Install enca on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install enca using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install enca

Install enca on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install enca using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install enca

How To Uninstall enca on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the enca package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove enca

enca Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/enca
/usr/bin/enconv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/227f6b512846ad1b429d9fa1bff4412479efc6
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/696f891c2a37360889de3c60103fa1a2888599
/usr/lib64/libenca.so.0
/usr/lib64/libenca.so.0.5.1
/usr/share/doc/enca
/usr/share/doc/enca/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/enca/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/enca/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/enca/README
/usr/share/doc/enca/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/enca/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/enca.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/enconv.1.gz
/usr/bin/enca
/usr/bin/enconv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/d39d17e0b317cd2b354c85fbb33826ec3a3e2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/6f393968f6b4052e2508070e16d30ad50e07c7
/usr/lib/libenca.so.0
/usr/lib/libenca.so.0.5.1
/usr/share/doc/enca
/usr/share/doc/enca/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/enca/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/enca/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/enca/README
/usr/share/doc/enca/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/enca/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/enca.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/enconv.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install enca on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.