How To Install jansi.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansi.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. jansi.noarch is Jansi is a java library for generating and interpreting ANSI

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansi.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `jansi.noarch`

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 to install jansi.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jansi.noarch.

Install jansi.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install jansi.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jansi.noarch

How To Uninstall jansi.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the jansi.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove jansi.noarch

jansi.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/jansi-1.9
/usr/share/doc/jansi-1.9/changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/jansi-1.9/license.txt
/usr/share/doc/jansi-1.9/readme.md
/usr/share/java/jansi.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-jansi.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/jansi.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-jansi.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP.jansi-jansi-project.pom

References

jansi.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansi.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.