How To Install miglayout on Fedora 34

miglayout is Versatile and flexible Swing layout manager

Introduction

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

What is miglayout

MiGLayout is a versatile Swing layout manager. It uses String or API type-checked constraints to format the layout. MiGLayout can produce flowing, grid based, absolute (with links), grouped and docking layouts. MiGLayout is created to be to manually coded layouts what Matisse/GroupLayout is to IDE supported visual layouts.

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

Install miglayout 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 miglayout using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install miglayout

Install miglayout 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 miglayout using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install miglayout

How To Uninstall miglayout on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove miglayout

miglayout Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/java/miglayout-core.jar
/usr/share/java/miglayout-swing.jar

References

Summary

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