How To Install slminfo on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install sunpinyin-utils

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install sunpinyin-utils

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is slminfo and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install slminfo on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install slminfo on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install slminfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sunpinyin-utils

Install slminfo on CentOS 8 using yum

Because slminfo is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install slminfo package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sunpinyin-utils

How to upgrade (update) a single package slminfo using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like slminfo in this example you should use the following command:

yum update sunpinyin-utils

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade sunpinyin-utils

How to Upgrade slminfo on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update sunpinyin-utils

How To remove slminfo from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the slminfo package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove sunpinyin-utils

Extra info and code examples

Sunpinyin is a statistical language model (SLM) based input method engine for Simplified Chinese, it features full sentence input. This package contains some utilities used by open-gram project, including: * genpyt - generate the pinyin lexicon * tslmpack - convert the ARPA format of SunPinyin back-off language model to its binary representation * tslmendian - change the byte-order of sunpinyin's threaded back-off language model and some Python programs which maybe used to import user dictionary from other input method such as sougou, google, fcitx etc.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install slminfo using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the slminfo from CentOS 8.

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