How To Install libicu on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libicu
on CentOS 7.
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. 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libicu.
Install libicu on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libicu
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libicu 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.
After updating yum database, We can install libicu
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libicu on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libicu
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libicu
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.