How To Install idn2 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2 on Rocky Linux 8. idn2 is IDNA2008 internationalized domain names conversion tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2 on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install idn2.

Install idn2 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 idn2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install idn2

Install idn2 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 idn2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install idn2

How To Uninstall idn2 on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove idn2

idn2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/idn2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/0bca1284c9cd78d4765be9554e5c8d11ffb74b
/usr/share/info/libidn2.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/idn2.1.gz

References

idn2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install idn2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.