How To Install hyphen on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyphen on Rocky Linux 8.

What is hyphen

Hyphen is a library for high quality hyphenation and justification.

We can use yum or dnf to install hyphen on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hyphen.

Install hyphen on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install hyphen

Install hyphen on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install hyphen

How To Uninstall hyphen on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove hyphen

hyphen Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/2bd6ec31b17d1d58db6c8e3d922793338bbea6
/usr/lib/libhyphen.so.0
/usr/lib/libhyphen.so.0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README.hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README.nonstandard
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/TODO
/usr/share/hyphen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/1cd15879d33ced125136093a72902ef937713a
/usr/lib64/libhyphen.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhyphen.so.0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README.hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/README.nonstandard
/usr/share/doc/hyphen/TODO
/usr/share/hyphen

References

• hyphen website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyphen on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.