How To Install abrt-java-connector on CentOS 8

abrt-java-connector is JNI Agent library converting Java exceptions to ABRT problems

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-java-connector on CentOS 8.

What is abrt-java-connector

JNI library providing an agent capable to process both caught and uncaught exceptions and transform them to ABRT problems

We can use yum or dnf to install abrt-java-connector on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abrt-java-connector.

Install abrt-java-connector on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-java-connector using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abrt-java-connector

Install abrt-java-connector on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-java-connector using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abrt-java-connector

How To Uninstall abrt-java-connector on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the abrt-java-connector package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abrt-java-connector

abrt-java-connector Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/abrt/plugins/java.conf
/etc/libreport/events.d/java_event.conf
/etc/libreport/plugins/bugzilla_format_java.conf
/etc/libreport/plugins/bugzilla_formatdup_java.conf
/usr/bin/abrt-action-analyze-java
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/99a974140af4deefb1a700efb4276b8fa8b933
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/749fcfe9feaf2792b75abd0aee06f9d81744b1
/usr/lib/abrt-java-connector
/usr/lib/abrt-java-connector/libabrt-java-connector.so
/usr/share/abrt/conf.d/plugins/java.conf
/usr/share/doc/abrt-java-connector
/usr/share/doc/abrt-java-connector/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/abrt-java-connector/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/abrt-java-connector/README
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-action-analyze-java.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/bugzilla_format_java.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/bugzilla_formatdup_java.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/java_event.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-java-connector on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.