How To Install hyphen.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyphen.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. hyphen.i686 is A text hyphenation library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyphen.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `hyphen.i686`

Hyphen is a library for high quality hyphenation and justification.

We can use yum to install hyphen.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hyphen.i686.

Install hyphen.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install hyphen.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hyphen.i686

How To Uninstall hyphen.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the hyphen.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove hyphen.i686

hyphen.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libhyphen.so.0
/usr/lib/libhyphen.so.0.2.1
/usr/share/doc/hyphen-2.8.6
/usr/share/doc/hyphen-2.8.6/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/hyphen-2.8.6/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/hyphen-2.8.6/README
/usr/share/doc/hyphen-2.8.6/README.hyphen
/usr/share/doc/hyphen-2.8.6/README.nonstandard
/usr/share/doc/hyphen-2.8.6/TODO
/usr/share/hyphen

References

hyphen.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyphen.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.