How To Install jansi-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansi-native.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. jansi-native.x86_64 is Jansi Native implements the JNI Libraries used by the Jansi

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansi-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `jansi-native.x86_64`

Jansi is a small java library that allows you to use ANSI escape sequences in your Java console applications. It implements ANSI support on platforms which don’t support it like Windows and provides graceful degradation for when output is being sent to output devices which cannot support ANSI sequences.

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

Install jansi-native.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 jansi-native.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jansi-native.x86_64

How To Uninstall jansi-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the jansi-native.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove jansi-native.x86_64

jansi-native.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/java/jansi-native-linux.jar
/usr/lib/java/jansi-native-linux64.jar
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native-1.4
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native-1.4/changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native-1.4/license.txt
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native-1.4/readme.md
/usr/share/java/jansi-native.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-jansi-native.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/jansi-native.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-jansi-native.pom

References

jansi-native.x86_64 website

Summary

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