How To Install scala-swing on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scala-swing on CentOS 8.
What is scala-swing
This package contains the swing library for the scala programming languages. This library is required to develope GUI-releate applications in scala. The release provided by this package is not the original version from upstream because this version is not compatible with JDK-1.7.
We can use yum or dnf to install scala-swing on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scala-swing.
Install scala-swing 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 scala-swing using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install scala-swing
Install scala-swing 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 scala-swing using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install scala-swing
How To Uninstall scala-swing on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the scala-swing package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove scala-swing
scala-swing Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/java/scala
/usr/share/java/scala/scala-swing.jar
/usr/share/licenses/scala-swing
/usr/share/licenses/scala-swing/LICENSE
/usr/share/maven-metadata/scala-swing.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP.scala-scala-swing.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/scala
/usr/share/maven-poms/scala/scala-swing.pom
/usr/share/scala/lib/scala-swing.jar
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scala-swing on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.