How To Install jcip-annotations on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install jcip-annotations on CentOS 7. jcip-annotations is Java annotations for multithreaded software

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jcip-annotations on CentOS 7.

What is jcip-annotations

This package provides class, field, and method level annotations for describing thread-safety policies. These annotations are relatively unintrusive and are beneficial to both users and maintainers. Users can see immediately whether a class is thread-safe, and maintainers can see immediately whether thread-safety guarantees must be preserved. Annotations are also useful to a third constituency may be able to verify that the code complies with the contract indicated by the annotation, such as verifying that a class annotated with @Immutable actually is immutable.

We can use yum or dnf to install jcip-annotations on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jcip-annotations.

Install jcip-annotations on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install jcip-annotations

Install jcip-annotations on CentOS 7 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 jcip-annotations using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jcip-annotations

How To Uninstall jcip-annotations on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the jcip-annotations package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove jcip-annotations

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jcip-annotations on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.