How To Install icu4j on Fedora 34

icu4j is International Components for Unicode for Java

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icu4j on Fedora 34.

What is icu4j

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode standard, and provides support for supplementary characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support). Java provides a very strong foundation for global programs, and IBM and the ICU team played a key role in providing globalization technology into Sun’s Java. But because of its long release schedule, Java cannot always keep up-to-date with evolving standards. The ICU team continues to extend Java’s Unicode and internationalization support, focusing on improving performance, keeping current with the Unicode standard, and providing richer APIs, while remaining as compatible as possible with the original Java text and internationalization API design.

We can use yum or dnf to install icu4j on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icu4j.

Install icu4j on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install icu4j using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install icu4j

Install icu4j on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install icu4j using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install icu4j

How To Uninstall icu4j on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the icu4j package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove icu4j

icu4j Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/icu4j
/usr/share/doc/icu4j/APIChangeReport.html
/usr/share/doc/icu4j/readme.html
/usr/share/java/icu4j
/usr/share/java/icu4j/icu4j.jar
/usr/share/licenses/icu4j
/usr/share/licenses/icu4j/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/icu4j/license.html
/usr/share/maven-metadata/icu4j-icu4j.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/icu4j
/usr/share/maven-poms/icu4j/icu4j.pom

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icu4j on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.