How To Install woodstox-core.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install woodstox-core.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. woodstox-core.noarch is High-performance XML processor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install woodstox-core.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `woodstox-core.noarch`

Woodstox is a high-performance validating namespace-aware StAX-compliant (JSR-173) Open Source XML-processor written in Java. XML processor means that it handles both input (== parsing) and output (== writing, serialization)), as well as supporting tasks such as validation.

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

Install woodstox-core.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 woodstox-core.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install woodstox-core.noarch

How To Uninstall woodstox-core.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the woodstox-core.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove woodstox-core.noarch

woodstox-core.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/woodstox-core-4.1.2
/usr/share/doc/woodstox-core-4.1.2/ASL2.0
/usr/share/doc/woodstox-core-4.1.2/LGPL2.1
/usr/share/doc/woodstox-core-4.1.2/NOTICE
/usr/share/java/woodstox-core-asl.jar
/usr/share/java/woodstox-core.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-woodstox-core-asl.pom
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-woodstox-core.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/woodstox-core.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-woodstox-core-asl.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-woodstox-core-lgpl.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-woodstox-core.pom

References

woodstox-core.noarch website

Summary

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