Information about the package, enca, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The enca package is designed for, Character set analyzer and detector.
Package Name:
enca
Summary:
Character set analyzer and detector
Description:
Enca is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs. Currently, it has support for Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Ukrainian, Chinese and some multibyte encodings (mostly variants of Unicode) independent on the language. This package also contains shared Enca library other programs can make use of. Install enca if you need to cope with text files of dubious origin and unknown encoding and convert them to some reasonable encoding.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.19
Release:
1.el6
Size:
104 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the enca package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install enca
This command will install enca on the server.
yum remove enca
This command will un-install enca on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove enca, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove enca
This command will un-install enca on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove enca when using the -y flag.
yum update enca
This command will update enca to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove enca, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update enca
This command will update enca to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove enca when using the -y flag.
yum info enca
This command will show you core information about the enca package.
yum deplist enca
This command will show you the dependencies for enca. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update enca
This command will check if there is an update waiting on enca. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.