How To Install jsoup.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install jsoup.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. jsoup.noarch is Java library for working with real-world HTML

Introduction

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

What is jsoup.noarch

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

Install jsoup.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 jsoup.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jsoup.noarch

How To Uninstall jsoup.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove jsoup.noarch

jsoup.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/jsoup-1.6.1
/usr/share/doc/jsoup-1.6.1/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/jsoup-1.6.1/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/jsoup-1.6.1/README
/usr/share/java/jsoup.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-jsoup.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/jsoup.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-jsoup.pom

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Summary

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