How To Install liblouis on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis on CentOS 7.
What is liblouis
Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many, 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 is based on the translation routines in the BRLTTY screenreader for Linux. It has, however, gone far beyond these routines. The library is named in honor of Louis Braille. Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many, 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 is based on the translation routines in the BRLTTY screenreader for Linux. It has, however, gone far beyond these routines. The library is named in honor of Louis Braille.
We can use yum or dnf to install liblouis on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install liblouis.
Install liblouis on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install liblouis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install liblouis
Install liblouis 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 liblouis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install liblouis
How To Uninstall liblouis on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the liblouis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove liblouis
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
