How To Install freemarker on Fedora 34

freemarker is The Apache FreeMarker Template Engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freemarker on Fedora 34.

What is freemarker

Apache FreeMarker is a template engine (HTML web pages, e-mails, configuration files, source code, etc.) based on templates and changing data. Templates are written in the FreeMarker Template Language (FTL), which is a simple, specialized language (not a full-blown programming language like PHP).

We can use yum or dnf to install freemarker on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freemarker.

Install freemarker on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install freemarker using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freemarker

Install freemarker on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install freemarker using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freemarker

How To Uninstall freemarker on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the freemarker package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freemarker

freemarker Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/freemarker
/usr/share/doc/freemarker/README.md
/usr/share/doc/freemarker/RELEASE-NOTES
/usr/share/java/freemarker.jar
/usr/share/licenses/freemarker
/usr/share/licenses/freemarker/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/freemarker/NOTICE
/usr/share/maven-metadata/freemarker.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/freemarker.pom

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freemarker on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.