How To Install mingw64-icu on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-icu on CentOS 8. mingw64-icu is MinGW compilation of International Components for Unicode Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-icu on CentOS 8.

What is mingw64-icu

ICU is a set of C and C++ libraries that provides robust and full-featured Unicode and locale support. The library provides calendar support, conversions for many character sets, language sensitive collation, date and time formatting, support for many locales, message catalogs and resources, message formatting, normalization, number and currency formatting, time zone support, transliteration, and word, line, and sentence breaking, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install mingw64-icu on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw64-icu.

Install mingw64-icu on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mingw64-icu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw64-icu

Install mingw64-icu on CentOS 8 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 mingw64-icu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw64-icu

How To Uninstall mingw64-icu on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the mingw64-icu package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mingw64-icu

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-icu on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.