How To Install libunistring on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunistring on Rocky Linux 8. libunistring is GNU Unicode string library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunistring on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libunistring

This portable C library implements Unicode string types in three flavours (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32), together with functions for 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libunistring.

Install libunistring on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install libunistring

Install libunistring on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install libunistring

How To Uninstall libunistring on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libunistring

libunistring Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/6e59c80bedb08faf4adc9bd20ecc434881ef58
/usr/lib/libunistring.so.2
/usr/lib/libunistring.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libunistring
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/README
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring/COPYING.LIB
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/d030680f0247e18c3aa5bfb0c0f4f95583fe7f
/usr/lib64/libunistring.so.2
/usr/lib64/libunistring.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libunistring
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libunistring/README
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libunistring/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunistring on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.