How To Install libchewing.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libchewing.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libchewing.i686 is Intelligent phonetic input method library for Traditional Chinese

Introduction

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

What is `libchewing.i686`

libchewing is an intelligent phonetic input method library for Chinese. It provides the core algorithm and logic that can be used by various input methods. The Chewing input method is a smart bopomofo phonetics input method that is useful for inputting Mandarin Chinese.

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

Install libchewing.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 libchewing.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libchewing.i686

How To Uninstall libchewing.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libchewing.i686

libchewing.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libchewing
/usr/lib/libchewing.so.3
/usr/lib/libchewing.so.3.0.1
/usr/lib/libchewing/ch_index_begin.dat
/usr/lib/libchewing/ch_index_phone.dat
/usr/lib/libchewing/dict.dat
/usr/lib/libchewing/fonetree.dat
/usr/lib/libchewing/ph_index.dat
/usr/lib/libchewing/pinyin.tab
/usr/lib/libchewing/swkb.dat
/usr/lib/libchewing/symbols.dat
/usr/lib/libchewing/us_freq.dat
/usr/share/doc/libchewing-0.3.4
/usr/share/doc/libchewing-0.3.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libchewing-0.3.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libchewing-0.3.4/README
/usr/share/info/libchewing.info.gz

References

libchewing.i686 website

Summary

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