How To Install liblouis on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis on AlmaLinux 8.
What is liblouis
Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator named in honor of Louis Braille. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be added through tables that support a rule- or dictionary based approach. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg). Liblouis has features to support screen-reading programs. This has led to its use in two open-source screen readers, NVDA and Orca. It is also used in some commercial assistive technology applications for example by ViewPlus. Liblouis is based on the translation routines in the BRLTTY screen reader for Linux. It has, however, gone far beyond these routines.
We can use yum or dnf to install liblouis on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install liblouis.
Install liblouis 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 liblouis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install liblouis
Install liblouis 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 liblouis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install liblouis
How To Uninstall liblouis on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the liblouis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove liblouis
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.