Information about the package, libicu, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libicu package is designed for, International Components for Unicode - libraries.
Package Name:
libicu
Summary:
International Components for Unicode - libraries
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.2.1
Release:
14.el6
Size:
4.9 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT and UCD and Public Domain
Control the libicu package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libicu
This command will install libicu on the server.
yum remove libicu
This command will un-install libicu on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libicu, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libicu
This command will un-install libicu 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 libicu when using the -y flag.
yum update libicu
This command will update libicu to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libicu, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libicu
This command will update libicu 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 libicu when using the -y flag.
yum info libicu
This command will show you core information about the libicu package.
yum deplist libicu
This command will show you the dependencies for libicu. 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 libicu
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libicu. 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.