How To Install libicu on AlmaLinux 8

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

Introduction

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

What is libicu

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode standard, and they provide support for supplementary Unicode characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support). As computing environments become more heterogeneous, software portability becomes more important. ICU lets you produce the same results across all the various platforms you support, without sacrificing performance. It offers great flexibility to extend and customize the supplied services.

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

Install libicu 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 libicu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libicu

Install libicu 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 libicu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libicu

How To Uninstall libicu on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libicu

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Summary

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