How To Install jline on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jline on Rocky Linux 8.
What is jline
JLine is a Java library for handling console input. It is similar in functionality to BSD editline and GNU readline. People familiar with the readline/editline capabilities for modern shells (such as bash and tcsh) will find most of the command editing features of JLine to be familiar.
We can use yum or dnf to install jline on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jline.
Install jline on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install jline using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install jline
Install jline on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install jline using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install jline
How To Uninstall jline on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the jline package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove jline
jline Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/java/jline
/usr/share/java/jline/jline.jar
/usr/share/maven-metadata/jline.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/jline
/usr/share/maven-poms/jline/jline.pom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jline on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
