How To Install libunistring on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunistring on CentOS 7. libunistring is GNU Unicode string library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunistring on CentOS 7.

What is libunistring

This portable C library implements Unicode string types in three flavours character processing (names, classifications, properties) and functions for string processing (iteration, formatted output, width, word breaks, line breaks, normalization, case folding and regular expressions). This portable C library implements Unicode string types in three flavours character processing (names, classifications, properties) and functions for string processing (iteration, formatted output, width, word breaks, line breaks, normalization, case folding and regular expressions).

We can use yum or dnf to install libunistring on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libunistring.

Install libunistring on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libunistring using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libunistring

Install libunistring 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 libunistring using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libunistring

How To Uninstall libunistring on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libunistring

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunistring on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.