How To Install libicu60.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libicu60.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libicu60.i686 is International Components for Unicode

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libicu60.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libicu60.i686

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode standard, and they provide support for supplementary Unicode characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support). As computing environments become more heterogeneous, software portability becomes more important. ICU lets you produce the same results across all the various platforms you support, without sacrificing performance. It offers great flexibility to extend and customize the supplied services.

We can use yum to install libicu60.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libicu60.i686.

Install libicu60.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 libicu60.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libicu60.i686

How To Uninstall libicu60.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libicu60.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libicu60.i686

libicu60.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libicudata.so.60
/usr/lib/libicudata.so.60.3
/usr/lib/libicui18n.so.60
/usr/lib/libicui18n.so.60.3
/usr/lib/libicuio.so.60
/usr/lib/libicuio.so.60.3
/usr/lib/libicutest.so.60
/usr/lib/libicutest.so.60.3
/usr/lib/libicutu.so.60
/usr/lib/libicutu.so.60.3
/usr/lib/libicuuc.so.60
/usr/lib/libicuuc.so.60.3
/usr/share/doc/libicu60-60.3
/usr/share/doc/libicu60-60.3/readme.html
/usr/share/licenses/libicu60-60.3
/usr/share/licenses/libicu60-60.3/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libicu60.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.