How To Install liblouis-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. liblouis-utils.x86_64 is Command-line utilities to test liblouis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `liblouis-utils.x86_64`

Six test programs are provided as part of the liblouis package. They are intended for testing liblouis and for debugging tables. None of them is suitable for braille transcription.

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

Install liblouis-utils.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 liblouis-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liblouis-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall liblouis-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the liblouis-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove liblouis-utils.x86_64

liblouis-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/lou_allround
/usr/bin/lou_checkhyphens
/usr/bin/lou_checktable
/usr/bin/lou_debug
/usr/bin/lou_harnessGenerator
/usr/bin/lou_trace
/usr/bin/lou_translate
/usr/share/doc/liblouis-utils-2.6.2
/usr/share/doc/liblouis-utils-2.6.2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lou_allround.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lou_checkhyphens.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lou_checktable.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lou_debug.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lou_trace.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lou_translate.1.gz

References

liblouis-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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