How To Install jFormatString on Fedora 34

jFormatString is Java format string compile-time checker

Introduction

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

What is jFormatString

This project is derived from Sun’s implementation of java.util.Formatter. It is designed to allow compile time checks as to whether or not a use of a format string will be erroneous when executed at runtime.

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

Install jFormatString 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 jFormatString using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jFormatString

Install jFormatString 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 jFormatString using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jFormatString

How To Uninstall jFormatString on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jFormatString

jFormatString Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/java/jFormatString.jar
/usr/share/maven-metadata/jFormatString.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-jFormatString.pom

References

Summary

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