How To Install jarjar.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install jarjar.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. jarjar.noarch is Jar Jar Links

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jarjar.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is jarjar.noarch

Jar Jar Links is a utility that makes it easy to repackage Java libraries and embed them into your own distribution. This is useful for two reasons You can easily ship a single jar file with no external dependencies. You can avoid problems where your library depends on a specific version of a library, which may conflict with the dependencies of another library.

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

Install jarjar.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 jarjar.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jarjar.noarch

How To Uninstall jarjar.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the jarjar.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove jarjar.noarch

jarjar.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/jarjar-1.4
/usr/share/doc/jarjar-1.4/COPYING
/usr/share/java/jarjar-util.jar
/usr/share/java/jarjar.jar
/usr/share/maven-fragments/jarjar
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-jarjar-util.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-jarjar.pom

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jarjar.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.