How To Install icedtea-web on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-web
on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install icedtea-web
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install icedtea-web
Install icedtea-web on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install icedtea-web
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install icedtea-web
How To Uninstall icedtea-web on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the icedtea-web
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove icedtea-web
icedtea-web Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/bash_completion.d/itweb-settings.bash
/etc/bash_completion.d/javaws.bash
/etc/bash_completion.d/policyeditor.bash
/etc/java/icedtea-web/itw-modularjdk.args
/usr/bin/itweb-settings.itweb.sh
/usr/bin/javaws.itweb.sh
/usr/bin/policyeditor.itweb.sh
/usr/share/appdata/icedtea-web-javaws.appdata.xml
/usr/share/appdata/icedtea-web.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/applications/itweb-settings.desktop
/usr/share/applications/javaws.desktop
/usr/share/applications/policyeditor.desktop
/usr/share/doc/icedtea-web
/usr/share/doc/icedtea-web/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/icedtea-web/README
/usr/share/icedtea-web
/usr/share/icedtea-web/javaws.jar
/usr/share/icedtea-web/javaws_splash.png
/usr/share/icedtea-web/jsobject.jar
/usr/share/icedtea-web/netx.jar
/usr/share/icedtea-web/plugin.jar
/usr/share/java/icedtea-web-plugin.jar
/usr/share/java/icedtea-web.jar
/usr/share/licenses/icedtea-web
/usr/share/licenses/icedtea-web/COPYING
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/icedtea-web-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/icedtea-web.1.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/policyeditor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/icedtea-web-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/icedtea-web.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/policyeditor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icedtea-web-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icedtea-web.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/javaws.itweb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/policyeditor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/icedtea-web-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/icedtea-web.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/policyeditor.1.gz
/usr/share/maven-metadata/icedtea-web.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/icedtea-web-plugin.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/icedtea-web.pom
/usr/share/pixmaps/javaws.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-web
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.