How To Install idn2 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2 on CentOS 7. idn2 is IDNA2008 internationalized domain names conversion tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2 on CentOS 7.

What is idn2

The idn2 package contains the idn2 command line tool for testing IDNA2008 conversions.

We can use yum or dnf to install idn2 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install idn2.

Install idn2 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install idn2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install idn2

Install idn2 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 idn2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install idn2

How To Uninstall idn2 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the idn2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove idn2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.