How To Install icu on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install icu in AlmaLinux 8. icu is International Components for Unicode

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icu on AlmaLinux 8.

What is icu

Tools and utilities for developing with icu.

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

Install icu on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install icu

Install icu on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install icu

How To Uninstall icu on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove icu

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icu on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.