How To Install yuicompressor on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install yuicompressor on Rocky Linux 8. yuicompressor is YUI Compressor - The Yahoo JavaScript and CSS Compressor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yuicompressor on Rocky Linux 8.

What is yuicompressor

The YUI Compressor is a JavaScript compressor which, in addition to removing comments and white-spaces, obfuscates local variables using the smallest possible variable name. This obfuscation is safe, even when using constructs such as ’eval’ or ‘with’ (although the compression is not optimal in those cases) Compared to jsmin, the average savings is around 20%. The YUI Compressor is also able to safely compress CSS files. The decision on which compressor is being used is made on the file extension (js or css).

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

Install yuicompressor 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 yuicompressor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yuicompressor

Install yuicompressor 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 yuicompressor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yuicompressor

How To Uninstall yuicompressor on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the yuicompressor package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove yuicompressor

yuicompressor Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/yuicompressor
/usr/share/doc/yuicompressor
/usr/share/doc/yuicompressor/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/yuicompressor/README.md
/usr/share/java/yuicompressor
/usr/share/java/yuicompressor/yuicompressor.jar
/usr/share/licenses/yuicompressor
/usr/share/licenses/yuicompressor/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/yuicompressor/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/yuicompressor.1.gz
/usr/share/maven-metadata/yuicompressor.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/yuicompressor
/usr/share/maven-poms/yuicompressor/yuicompressor.pom

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yuicompressor on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.