How To Install jffi on Fedora 34

jffi is Java Foreign Function Interface

Introduction

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

What is jffi

An optimized Java interface to libffi.

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

Install jffi 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 jffi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jffi

Install jffi 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 jffi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jffi

How To Uninstall jffi on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jffi

jffi Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/java/jffi
/usr/lib/java/jffi.jar
/usr/lib/java/jffi/jffi.jar
/usr/share/licenses/jffi
/usr/share/licenses/jffi/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/licenses/jffi/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/licenses/jffi/LICENSE
/usr/share/maven-metadata/jffi.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/jffi
/usr/share/maven-poms/jffi.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/jffi/jffi.pom

References

Summary

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