How To Install zinnia on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zinnia on Rocky Linux 8.
What is zinnia
Zinnia provides a simple, customizable, and portable dynamic OCR system for hand-written input, based on Support Vector Machines. Zinnia simply receives user pen strokes as coordinate data and outputs the best matching characters sorted by SVM confidence. To maintain portability, it has no rendering functionality. In addition to recognition, Zinnia provides a training module capable of creating highly efficient handwriting recognition models. This package contains the shared libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install zinnia on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zinnia.
Install zinnia 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 zinnia using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zinnia
Install zinnia 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 zinnia using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zinnia
How To Uninstall zinnia on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the zinnia package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zinnia
zinnia Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/97dec7629897d23f2e664f73b59350cee7d98a
/usr/lib64/libzinnia.so.0
/usr/lib64/libzinnia.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/zinnia
/usr/share/doc/zinnia/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/zinnia/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zinnia on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.