How To Install anthy on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install anthy on CentOS 7. anthy is Japanese character set input library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install anthy on CentOS 7.

What is anthy

Anthy provides the library to input Japanese on the applications, such as X applications and emacs. and the user dictionaries and the users information which is used for the conversion, is stored into their own home directory. So Anthy is secure than other conversion server.

We can use yum or dnf to install anthy on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install anthy.

Install anthy on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install anthy

Install anthy on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install anthy

How To Uninstall anthy on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove anthy

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install anthy on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.