How To Install libunistring on Fedora 34

libunistring is GNU Unicode string library GNU Unicode string library

Introduction

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

What is `libunistring`

This portable C library implements Unicode string types in three flavours (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32), together with functions for character processing (names, classifications, properties) and functions for string processing (iteration, formatted output, width, word breaks, line breaks, normalization, case folding and regular expressions). libunistring 0.9.10 10.fc34 i686 519 k libunistring-0.9.10-10.fc34.src.rpm fedora GNU Unicode string library https GPLV2+ or LGPLv3+ This portable C library implements Unicode string types in three flavours (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32), together with functions for character processing (names, classifications, properties) and functions for string processing (iteration, formatted output, width, word breaks, line breaks, normalization, case folding and regular expressions).

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

Install libunistring 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 libunistring using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libunistring

Install libunistring 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 libunistring using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libunistring

How To Uninstall libunistring on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libunistring

libunistring Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/7a434718568d00efccd910750c8cded6aadab8
/usr/lib64/libunistring.so.2
/usr/lib64/libunistring.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libunistring
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/README
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring/COPYING.LIB
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/bbcc464902c747fca2021080a2fb43063f2741
/usr/lib/libunistring.so.2
/usr/lib/libunistring.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libunistring
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/README
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring/COPYING.LIB

References

[libunistring website](https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/ https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/)

Summary

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