How To Install cdi-api on CentOS 8

cdi-api is CDI API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cdi-api on CentOS 8.

What is cdi-api

APIs for JSR-299

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

Install cdi-api 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 cdi-api using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cdi-api

Install cdi-api 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 cdi-api using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cdi-api

How To Uninstall cdi-api on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cdi-api package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cdi-api

cdi-api Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/cdi-api
/usr/share/doc/cdi-api/cdi-spec.asciidoc
/usr/share/java/cdi-api
/usr/share/java/cdi-api/cdi-api.jar
/usr/share/java/javax.enterprise.inject
/usr/share/java/javax.enterprise.inject/cdi-api.jar
/usr/share/licenses/cdi-api
/usr/share/licenses/cdi-api/license-asl2.asciidoc
/usr/share/licenses/cdi-api/license-jcp.asciidoc
/usr/share/maven-metadata/cdi-api.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/cdi-api
/usr/share/maven-poms/cdi-api/cdi-api.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/javax.enterprise.inject
/usr/share/maven-poms/javax.enterprise.inject/cdi-api.pom

References

Summary

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