How To Install jsoup on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jsoup on CentOS 8.
What is jsoup
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods. jsoup implements the WHATWG HTML5 specification, and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers do. - scrape and parse HTML from a URL, file, or string - find and extract data, using DOM traversal or CSS selectors - manipulate the HTML elements, attributes, and text - clean user-submitted content against a safe white-list, to prevent XSS attacks - output tidy HTML jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree.
We can use yum or dnf to install jsoup on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jsoup.
Install jsoup 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 jsoup using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install jsoup
Install jsoup 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 jsoup using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install jsoup
How To Uninstall jsoup on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the jsoup package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove jsoup
jsoup Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/jsoup
/usr/share/doc/jsoup/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/jsoup/README.md
/usr/share/java/jsoup
/usr/share/java/jsoup/jsoup.jar
/usr/share/licenses/jsoup
/usr/share/licenses/jsoup/LICENSE
/usr/share/maven-metadata/jsoup.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/jsoup
/usr/share/maven-poms/jsoup/jsoup.pom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jsoup on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.