How To Install icedtea-web on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-web on CentOS 8. icedtea-web is Additional Java components for OpenJDK - Java browser plug-in and Web Start implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-web on CentOS 8.

What is icedtea-web

The IcedTea-Web project provides a an implementation of Java Web Start (originally based on the Netx project) and a settings tool to manage deployment settings for the aforementioned plugin and Web Start implementations.

We can use yum or dnf to install icedtea-web on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icedtea-web.

Install icedtea-web on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install icedtea-web

Install icedtea-web on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install icedtea-web

How To Uninstall icedtea-web on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the icedtea-web package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove icedtea-web

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-web on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.