How To Install apache-commons-codec.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install apache-commons-codec.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. apache-commons-codec.noarch is Implementations of common encoders and decoders

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apache-commons-codec.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is apache-commons-codec.noarch

Commons Codec is an attempt to provide definitive implementations of commonly used encoders and decoders. Examples include Base64, Hex, Phonetic and URLs.

We can use yum to install apache-commons-codec.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apache-commons-codec.noarch.

Install apache-commons-codec.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install apache-commons-codec.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install apache-commons-codec.noarch

How To Uninstall apache-commons-codec.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the apache-commons-codec.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove apache-commons-codec.noarch

apache-commons-codec.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-codec-1.8
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-codec-1.8/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-codec-1.8/NOTICE.txt
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-codec-1.8/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-codec-1.8/aspell-mail.txt
/usr/share/java/apache-commons-codec.jar
/usr/share/java/commons-codec.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-apache-commons-codec.pom
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-commons-codec.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/apache-commons-codec.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-apache-commons-codec.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-commons-codec.pom

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apache-commons-codec.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.