How To Install jansi-native on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansi-native on Rocky Linux 8. jansi-native is Jansi Native implements the JNI Libraries used by the Jansi project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansi-native on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `jansi-native`

Jansi is a small java library that allows you to use ANSI escape sequences in your Java console applications. It implements ANSI support on platforms which don’t support it like Windows and provides graceful degradation for when output is being sent to output devices which cannot support ANSI sequences.

We can use yum or dnf to install jansi-native on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jansi-native.

Install jansi-native 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 jansi-native using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jansi-native

Install jansi-native 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 jansi-native using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jansi-native

How To Uninstall jansi-native on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the jansi-native package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove jansi-native

jansi-native Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/java/jansi-native
/usr/lib/java/jansi-native/jansi-linux.jar
/usr/lib/java/jansi-native/jansi-linux64.jar
/usr/lib/java/jansi-native/jansi-native.jar
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native/changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native/readme.md
/usr/share/licenses/jansi-native
/usr/share/licenses/jansi-native/license.txt
/usr/share/maven-metadata/jansi-native.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/jansi-native
/usr/share/maven-poms/jansi-native/jansi-linux.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/jansi-native/jansi-linux64.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/jansi-native/jansi-native.pom
/usr/lib/java/jansi-native
/usr/lib/java/jansi-native/jansi-native.jar
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native/changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/jansi-native/readme.md
/usr/share/licenses/jansi-native
/usr/share/licenses/jansi-native/license.txt
/usr/share/maven-metadata/jansi-native.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/jansi-native
/usr/share/maven-poms/jansi-native/jansi-native.pom

References

jansi-native website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansi-native on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.