How To Install libchardet on Fedora 34

libchardet is Mozilla’s universal character set detector Mozilla’s universal character set detector

Introduction

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

What is libchardet

libchardet provides an interface to Mozilla’s universal charset detector, which detects the charset used to encode data. libchardet 1.0.5 11.fc34 x86_64 83 k libchardet-1.0.5-11.fc34.src.rpm fedora Mozilla’s universal character set detector http MPLv1.1 or LGPLv2+ or GPLv2+ libchardet provides an interface to Mozilla’s universal charset detector, which detects the charset used to encode data.

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

Install libchardet 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 libchardet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libchardet

Install libchardet 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 libchardet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libchardet

How To Uninstall libchardet on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libchardet

libchardet Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/5a2c56ebed9275b6b9dd5dbeffd3fddbc668e8
/usr/lib/libchardet.so.1
/usr/lib/libchardet.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libchardet
/usr/share/doc/libchardet/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/libchardet/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libchardet
/usr/share/licenses/libchardet/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/2ed6b1a685bfbe4ea431245c2f645fd0db7c95
/usr/lib64/libchardet.so.1
/usr/lib64/libchardet.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libchardet
/usr/share/doc/libchardet/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/libchardet/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libchardet
/usr/share/licenses/libchardet/LICENSE

References

Summary

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