How To Install kiten on CentOS 8

kiten is Japanese Reference/Study Tool

Introduction

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

What is `kiten`

Japanese Reference/Study Tool.

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

Install kiten 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 kiten using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kiten

Install kiten 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 kiten using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kiten

How To Uninstall kiten on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove kiten

kiten Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/kiten
/usr/bin/kitengen
/usr/bin/kitenkanjibrowser
/usr/bin/kitenradselect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/53ebb277e90b1ebdafb12d49f84b6e6a333d43
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/28ebfbe328070e02e55a50b2ac54a692aad221
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/9a0878cb48028295e408f232bb58cc052f29a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/89b9feed9ab0c432bfad6ffce3663c380fb1ab
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kiten.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kitenkanjibrowser.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kitenradselect.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/kiten.kcfg
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kiten/kiten1.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kiten/kiten2.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/common_uncommon_filtering.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/ending_search.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/font.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/grade_search.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/introduction.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/kanji_information.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/kanji_list.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/looking_up_words.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/radical_selector.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/search_in_results.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/stroke_search.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/verb_deinflection.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/with_filtering.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kiten/word_type_results.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kiten/kiten1.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kiten/kiten2.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/common_uncommon_filtering.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/ending_search.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/font.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/grade_search.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/introduction.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/kanji_information.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/kanji_list.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/looking_up_words.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/radical_selector.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/search_in_results.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/stroke_search.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/verb_deinflection.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/with_filtering.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kiten/word_type_results.png
/usr/share/doc/kiten
/usr/share/doc/kiten/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/kiten/README
/usr/share/doc/kiten/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kiten.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kiten.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/kiten.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kiten.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kiten.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kiten.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/kiten.svgz
/usr/share/kiten
/usr/share/kiten/edict
/usr/share/kiten/kanjidic
/usr/share/kiten/radkfile
/usr/share/kiten/romkana.cnv
/usr/share/kiten/vconj
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kiten
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kiten/kitenui.rc
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kitenkanjibrowser
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kitenkanjibrowser/kanjibrowserui.rc
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kitenradselect
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kitenradselect/radselectui.rc
/usr/share/licenses/kiten
/usr/share/licenses/kiten/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/kiten/COPYING.DOC
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kiten.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.kiten.appdata.xml

References

kiten website

Summary

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