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

In this tutorial we learn how to install apache-commons-compress.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. apache-commons-compress.noarch is Java API for working with compressed files and archivers

Introduction

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

What is `apache-commons-compress.noarch`

The Apache Commons Compress library defines an API for working with ar, cpio, Unix dump, tar, zip, gzip, XZ, Pack200 and bzip2 files.

We can use yum to install apache-commons-compress.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-compress.noarch.

Install apache-commons-compress.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-compress.noarch using yum by running the following command:

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

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

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

sudo yum remove apache-commons-compress.noarch

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

/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-compress-1.5
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-compress-1.5/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-compress-1.5/NOTICE.txt
/usr/share/java/apache-commons-compress.jar
/usr/share/java/commons-compress.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-apache-commons-compress.pom
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-commons-compress.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/apache-commons-compress.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-apache-commons-compress.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-commons-compress.pom

References

apache-commons-compress.noarch website

Summary

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