How To Install canl-java on CentOS 8

canl-java is EMI Common Authentication library - bindings for Java

Introduction

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

What is canl-java

This is the Java part of the EMI caNl – the Common Authentication Library.

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

Install canl-java 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 canl-java using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install canl-java

Install canl-java 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 canl-java using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install canl-java

How To Uninstall canl-java on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove canl-java

canl-java Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/canl-java
/usr/share/doc/canl-java/API-Changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/canl-java/README.md
/usr/share/java/canl-java
/usr/share/java/canl-java/canl.jar
/usr/share/licenses/canl-java
/usr/share/licenses/canl-java/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/maven-metadata/canl-java.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/canl-java
/usr/share/maven-poms/canl-java/canl.pom

References

Summary

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