How To Install icedtea-web.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-web.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. icedtea-web.x86_64 is Additional Java components for OpenJDK - Java browser plug-in and

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-web.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is icedtea-web.x86_64

The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plugin, an implementation of Java Web Start (originally based on the Netx project) and a settings tool to manage deployment settings for the aforementioned plugin and Web Start implementations.

We can use yum to install icedtea-web.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icedtea-web.x86_64.

Install icedtea-web.x86_64 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 icedtea-web.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install icedtea-web.x86_64

How To Uninstall icedtea-web.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the icedtea-web.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove icedtea-web.x86_64

icedtea-web.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/bash_completion.d/itweb-settings.bash
/etc/bash_completion.d/javaws.bash
/etc/bash_completion.d/policyeditor.bash
/usr/bin/itweb-settings.itweb
/usr/bin/javaws.itweb
/usr/bin/policyeditor.itweb
/usr/share/appdata/icedtea-web-javaws.appdata.xml
/usr/share/appdata/icedtea-web.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/applications/itweb-settings.desktop
/usr/share/applications/javaws.desktop
/usr/share/applications/policyeditor.desktop
/usr/share/doc/icedtea-web-1.7.1
/usr/share/doc/icedtea-web-1.7.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/icedtea-web-1.7.1/README
/usr/share/icedtea-web
/usr/share/icedtea-web/javaws_splash.png
/usr/share/icedtea-web/jsobject.jar
/usr/share/icedtea-web/netx.jar
/usr/share/icedtea-web/plugin.jar
/usr/share/java/icedtea-web-plugin.jar
/usr/share/java/icedtea-web.jar
/usr/share/licenses/icedtea-web-1.7.1
/usr/share/licenses/icedtea-web-1.7.1/COPYING
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/icedtea-web-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/icedtea-web.1.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/policyeditor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/icedtea-web-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/icedtea-web.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/policyeditor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icedtea-web-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icedtea-web.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/javaws.itweb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/policyeditor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/icedtea-web-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/icedtea-web.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/policyeditor.1.gz
/usr/share/maven-poms/icedtea-web-plugin.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/icedtea-web.pom
/usr/share/pixmaps/javaws.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-web.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.