How To Install m17n-lib on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-lib on Rocky Linux 8. m17n-lib is Multilingual text library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-lib on Rocky Linux 8.

What is m17n-lib

m17n-lib is a multilingual text library used primarily to allow the input of many languages with the input table maps from m17n-db. The package provides the core and input method backend libraries.

We can use yum or dnf to install m17n-lib on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install m17n-lib.

Install m17n-lib 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 m17n-lib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install m17n-lib

Install m17n-lib 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 m17n-lib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install m17n-lib

How To Uninstall m17n-lib on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the m17n-lib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove m17n-lib

m17n-lib Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/m17n-conv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/c079f0d1b7dc074c7a17a92617c302256fb623
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/32e21c217778e18b936c812bbc359517d03d7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/50ece48ef04177b52cc7dcdb55a1da101de635
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/69fa374182ff0c35a6f3d35571cac2fb789394
/usr/lib64/libm17n-core.so.0
/usr/lib64/libm17n-core.so.0.4.2
/usr/lib64/libm17n-flt.so.0
/usr/lib64/libm17n-flt.so.0.4.2
/usr/lib64/libm17n.so.0
/usr/lib64/libm17n.so.0.4.2
/usr/lib64/m17n
/usr/lib64/m17n/1.0
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib/README
/usr/share/licenses/m17n-lib
/usr/share/licenses/m17n-lib/COPYING
/usr/bin/m17n-conv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/85c934f3c961604e20c3971513fd30714bbb31
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/0052096f6cd65e39366c23e322915e2f873aaf
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/510649d5f2ffd8ec107fe5af30c24bbab3ebb4
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/a74ecc5aba7ba8f2ed6b1b0d6b061ed3e8577b
/usr/lib/libm17n-core.so.0
/usr/lib/libm17n-core.so.0.4.2
/usr/lib/libm17n-flt.so.0
/usr/lib/libm17n-flt.so.0.4.2
/usr/lib/libm17n.so.0
/usr/lib/libm17n.so.0.4.2
/usr/lib/m17n
/usr/lib/m17n/1.0
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/m17n-lib/README
/usr/share/licenses/m17n-lib
/usr/share/licenses/m17n-lib/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-lib on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.