How To Install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine on Rocky Linux 8. pentaho-reporting-flow-engine is Pentaho Flow Reporting Engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `pentaho-reporting-flow-engine`

Pentaho Reporting Flow Engine is a free Java report library, formerly known as ‘JFreeReport’

We can use yum or dnf to install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine.

Install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine 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 pentaho-reporting-flow-engine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine

Install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine 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 pentaho-reporting-flow-engine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine

How To Uninstall pentaho-reporting-flow-engine on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the pentaho-reporting-flow-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pentaho-reporting-flow-engine

pentaho-reporting-flow-engine Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/pentaho-reporting-flow-engine
/usr/share/doc/pentaho-reporting-flow-engine/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/pentaho-reporting-flow-engine/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/pentaho-reporting-flow-engine/licence-LGPL.txt
/usr/share/java/flow-engine.jar

References

pentaho-reporting-flow-engine website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pentaho-reporting-flow-engine on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.