How To Install jigawatts on Fedora 34

jigawatts is Java CRIU helper

Introduction

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

What is jigawatts

CRIU is a Linux utility that allows the checkpointing and restoring of processes.You can read more about CRIU at criu.org. CRIU for Java is a package which makes it more convenient to use CRIU from Java.

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

Install jigawatts 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 jigawatts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jigawatts

Install jigawatts 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 jigawatts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jigawatts

How To Uninstall jigawatts on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jigawatts

jigawatts Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/be19f8d48a20b73733dd0ce04fe543136b3a2a
/usr/lib/java/jigawatts
/usr/lib/java/jigawatts/jigawatt.jar
/usr/lib64/libJigawatts.so
/usr/share/doc/jigawatts
/usr/share/doc/jigawatts/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/jigawatts
/usr/share/licenses/jigawatts/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/maven-metadata/jigawatts.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/jigawatts
/usr/share/maven-poms/jigawatts/jigawatt.pom

References

Summary

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