How To Install apache-commons-lang3 on CentOS 8

apache-commons-lang3 is Provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apache-commons-lang3 on CentOS 8.

What is apache-commons-lang3

The standard Java libraries fail to provide enough methods for manipulation of its core classes. The Commons Lang Component provides these extra methods. The Commons Lang Component provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, creation and serialization, and System properties. Additionally it contains an inheritable enum type, an exception structure that supports multiple types of nested-Exceptions and a series of utilities dedicated to help with building methods, such as hashCode, toString and equals. With version of commons-lang 3.x, developers decided to change API and therefore created differently named artifact and jar files. This is the new version, while apache-commons-lang is the compatibility package.

We can use yum or dnf to install apache-commons-lang3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apache-commons-lang3.

Install apache-commons-lang3 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 apache-commons-lang3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install apache-commons-lang3

Install apache-commons-lang3 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 apache-commons-lang3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install apache-commons-lang3

How To Uninstall apache-commons-lang3 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the apache-commons-lang3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove apache-commons-lang3

apache-commons-lang3 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-lang3
/usr/share/doc/apache-commons-lang3/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
/usr/share/java/apache-commons-lang3.jar
/usr/share/java/commons-lang3.jar
/usr/share/licenses/apache-commons-lang3
/usr/share/licenses/apache-commons-lang3/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/licenses/apache-commons-lang3/NOTICE.txt
/usr/share/maven-metadata/apache-commons-lang3.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/apache-commons-lang3.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/commons-lang3.pom

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apache-commons-lang3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.