How To Install hyphen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyphen.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. hyphen.x86_64 is A text hyphenation library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyphen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `hyphen.x86_64`

Hyphen is a library for high quality hyphenation and justification.

We can use yum to install hyphen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hyphen.x86_64.

Install hyphen.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hyphen.x86_64

How To Uninstall hyphen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the hyphen.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove hyphen.x86_64

hyphen.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libhyphen.so.0
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyphen.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.