How To Install forbidden-apis on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install forbidden-apis in Fedora 36. forbidden-apis is Policeman’s Forbidden API Checker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install forbidden-apis on Fedora 36.

What is `forbidden-apis`

Allows to parse Java byte code to find invocations of method/class/field signatures and fail build (Apache Ant, Apache Maven, or Gradle).

We can use yum or dnf to install forbidden-apis on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install forbidden-apis.

Install forbidden-apis on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install forbidden-apis using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install forbidden-apis

Install forbidden-apis on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install forbidden-apis using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install forbidden-apis

How To Uninstall forbidden-apis on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the forbidden-apis package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove forbidden-apis

forbidden-apis Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/ant.d/forbidden-apis
/usr/share/doc/forbidden-apis
/usr/share/doc/forbidden-apis/README.md
/usr/share/java/forbidden-apis
/usr/share/java/forbidden-apis/forbiddenapis.jar
/usr/share/licenses/forbidden-apis
/usr/share/licenses/forbidden-apis/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/licenses/forbidden-apis/NOTICE.txt
/usr/share/maven-metadata/forbidden-apis.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/forbidden-apis
/usr/share/maven-poms/forbidden-apis/forbiddenapis.pom

References

forbidden-apis website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install forbidden-apis on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).