How To Install libkkc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkkc.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libkkc.i686 is Japanese Kana Kanji conversion library

Introduction

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

What is `libkkc.i686`

libkkc provides a converter from Kana-string to Kana-Kanji-mixed-string. It was named after kkc.el in GNU Emacs, a simple Kana Kanji converter, while libkkc tries to convert sentences in a bit more complex way using N-gram language models.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libkkc.i686

How To Uninstall libkkc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libkkc.i686

libkkc.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Kkc-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libkkc.so.2
/usr/lib/libkkc.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libkkc-0.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libkkc-0.3.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libkkc-0.3.1/README
/usr/share/doc/libkkc-0.3.1/README.rules
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libkkc.mo

References

libkkc.i686 website

Summary

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