How To Install kakasi on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install kakasi in Fedora 36. kakasi is A Japanese character set conversion filter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kakasi on Fedora 36.

What is `kakasi`

KAKASI is a filter for converting Kanji characters to Hiragana or Katakana characters, or into Romaji (phonetic transcription of Japanese pronunciation).

We can use yum or dnf to install kakasi on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kakasi.

Install kakasi on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install kakasi

Install kakasi on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install kakasi

How To Uninstall kakasi on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove kakasi

kakasi Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/atoc_conv
/usr/bin/kakasi
/usr/bin/mkkanwa
/usr/bin/rdic_conv
/usr/bin/wx2_conv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/66ee4bf15033b12c8d645ed0fcf7fd1e39a697
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/27a23e9e3986696e9ba80e0b07a9f2a282902c
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/0d171d6a5de801aaea567b9dafc4382d8828d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/cb13468ce801668462de2f7076fd981a15ee21
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/546f398eb52d0412abbfce4c5d23e4c22d3af1
/usr/share/doc/kakasi
/usr/share/doc/kakasi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/kakasi/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/kakasi/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/kakasi/README
/usr/share/doc/kakasi/README-ja
/usr/share/kakasi
/usr/share/kakasi/itaijidict
/usr/share/licenses/kakasi
/usr/share/licenses/kakasi/COPYING
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/kakasi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kakasi.1.gz

References

kakasi website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kakasi on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).