How To Install idn2 on Fedora 34

idn2 is IDNA2008 internationalized domain names conversion tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2 on Fedora 34.

What is idn2

The idn2 package contains the idn2 command line tool for testing IDNA2008 conversions.

We can use yum or dnf to install idn2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install idn2.

Install idn2 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 idn2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install idn2

Install idn2 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 idn2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install idn2

How To Uninstall idn2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the idn2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove idn2

idn2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/idn2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/5eeb5b992fbf01f7ef47237fbffd2c8843682e
/usr/share/info/libidn2.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/idn2.1.gz
/usr/bin/idn2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/d505a33c493f0ebc48fd78849b931c0d7cc694
/usr/share/info/libidn2.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/idn2.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.