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

In this tutorial we learn how to install apache-commons-net.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. apache-commons-net.noarch is Internet protocol suite Java library

Introduction

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

What is apache-commons-net.noarch

This is an Internet protocol suite Java library originally developed by ORO, Inc. This version supports Finger, Whois, TFTP, Telnet, POP3, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, and some miscellaneous protocols like Time and Echo as well as BSD R command support. The purpose of the library is to provide fundamental protocol access, not higher-level abstractions.

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

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

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

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

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

sudo yum remove apache-commons-net.noarch

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

/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-net-3.2
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-net-3.2/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-net-3.2/NOTICE.txt
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-net-3.2/README
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-net-3.2/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
/usr/share/java/apache-commons-net.jar
/usr/share/java/commons-net.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-apache-commons-net.pom
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-commons-net.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/apache-commons-net.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-apache-commons-net.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-commons-net.pom

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Summary

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