How To Install hyphen on CentOS 8

hyphen is A text hyphenation library A text hyphenation library

Introduction

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

What is hyphen

Hyphen is a library for high quality hyphenation and justification. hyphen 2.8.8 9.el8 x86_64 33 k hyphen-2.8.8-9.el8.src.rpm appstream A text hyphenation library http GPLv2 or LGPLv2+ or MPLv1.1 Hyphen is a library for high quality hyphenation and justification.

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

Install hyphen 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 hyphen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hyphen

Install hyphen 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 hyphen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hyphen

How To Uninstall hyphen on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove hyphen

hyphen Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/be2885e2ac182630d464a28bc34ef1e8700b50
/usr/lib/libhyphen.so.0
/usr/lib/libhyphen.so.0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README.hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README.nonstandard
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/TODO
/usr/share/hyphen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/4f3a4b788b48c25fef6abc850092ad454605c6
/usr/lib64/libhyphen.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhyphen.so.0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README.hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README.nonstandard
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/TODO
/usr/share/hyphen

References

Summary

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