How To Install glassfish-el-api on CentOS 8

glassfish-el-api is Expression Language 3.0 API

Introduction

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

What is glassfish-el-api

Expression Language 3.0 API.

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

Install glassfish-el-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 glassfish-el-api using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glassfish-el-api

Install glassfish-el-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 glassfish-el-api using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glassfish-el-api

How To Uninstall glassfish-el-api on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove glassfish-el-api

glassfish-el-api Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/java/glassfish-el-api.jar
/usr/share/licenses/glassfish-el-api
/usr/share/licenses/glassfish-el-api/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/glassfish-el-api/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/licenses/glassfish-el-api/eval-spec-license.html
/usr/share/licenses/glassfish-el-api/final-spec-license.html
/usr/share/maven-metadata/glassfish-el-javax.el-api.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/glassfish-el-api.pom

References

Summary

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