How To Install uchardet on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uchardet on CentOS 7.
What is uchardet
Uchardet is a C language binding of the original C++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by Mozilla. Uchardet is an encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.
We can use yum or dnf to install uchardet on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install uchardet.
Install uchardet on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install uchardet using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install uchardet
Install uchardet 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 uchardet using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install uchardet
How To Uninstall uchardet on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the uchardet package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove uchardet
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uchardet on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.