How To Install jsoup on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jsoup on CentOS 7.
What is jsoup
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods. jsoup implements the WHATWG HTML5 specification, and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers do. - scrape and parse HTML from a URL, file, or string - find and extract data, using DOM traversal or CSS selectors - manipulate the HTML elements, attributes, and text - clean user-submitted content against a safe white-list, to prevent XSS attacks - output tidy HTML jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree.
We can use yum or dnf to install jsoup on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jsoup.
Install jsoup on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install jsoup using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install jsoup
Install jsoup 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 jsoup using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install jsoup
How To Uninstall jsoup on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the jsoup package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove jsoup
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jsoup on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.