How To Install geronimo-annotation on CentOS 8

geronimo-annotation is Java EE

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geronimo-annotation on CentOS 8.

What is geronimo-annotation

This package defines the common annotations.

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

Install geronimo-annotation 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 geronimo-annotation using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geronimo-annotation

Install geronimo-annotation 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 geronimo-annotation using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geronimo-annotation

How To Uninstall geronimo-annotation on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the geronimo-annotation package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geronimo-annotation

geronimo-annotation Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/java/annotation.jar
/usr/share/java/geronimo-annotation.jar
/usr/share/licenses/geronimo-annotation
/usr/share/licenses/geronimo-annotation/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/geronimo-annotation/NOTICE
/usr/share/maven-metadata/geronimo-annotation.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/annotation.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/geronimo-annotation.pom

References

Summary

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