How To Install jss on Fedora 34

jss is Java Security Services (JSS)

Introduction

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

What is jss

Java Security Services (JSS) is a java native interface which provides a bridge for java-based applications to use native Network Security Services (NSS). This only works with gcj. Other JREs require that JCE providers be signed.

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

Install jss 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 jss using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jss

Install jss 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 jss using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jss

How To Uninstall jss on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jss

jss Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/323c396916ba1ad6a558ea5c66cc355e93b3bc
/usr/lib/java/jss4.jar
/usr/lib64/jss
/usr/lib64/jss/jss4.jar
/usr/lib64/jss/libjss4.so
/usr/share/doc/jss
/usr/share/doc/jss/jss.html
/usr/share/licenses/jss
/usr/share/licenses/jss/MPL-1.1.txt
/usr/share/licenses/jss/gpl.txt
/usr/share/licenses/jss/lgpl.txt

References

Summary

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