How To Install courier-unicode on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-unicode on CentOS 7. courier-unicode is A library implementing algorithms related to the Unicode Standard

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-unicode on CentOS 7.

What is courier-unicode

This library implements several algorithms related to the Unicode Standard * Look up uppercase, lowercase, and titlecase equivalents of a unicode character. * Implementation of grapheme and work breaking rules. * Implementation of line breaking rules. Several ancillary functions, like looking up the unicode character that corresponds to some HTML 4.0 entity (such as “&”, for example), and determining the normal width or a double-width status of a unicode character. Also, an adaptation of the iconv(3) API for this unicode library. This library also implements C++ bindings for these algorithms. The current release of the Courier Unicode library is based on the Unicode 6.3.0 standard.

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

Install courier-unicode on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install courier-unicode using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install courier-unicode

Install courier-unicode 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 courier-unicode using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install courier-unicode

How To Uninstall courier-unicode on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the courier-unicode package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove courier-unicode

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Summary

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