How To Install maven-release-plugin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install maven-release-plugin.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. maven-release-plugin.noarch is Release a project updating the POM and tagging in the SCM

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install maven-release-plugin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `maven-release-plugin.noarch`

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of repetitive, manual work. Releasing a project is made in two steps

We can use yum to install maven-release-plugin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install maven-release-plugin.noarch.

Install maven-release-plugin.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 maven-release-plugin.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install maven-release-plugin.noarch

How To Uninstall maven-release-plugin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the maven-release-plugin.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove maven-release-plugin.noarch

maven-release-plugin.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/maven-release-plugin-2.2.1
/usr/share/doc/maven-release-plugin-2.2.1/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/maven-release-plugin-2.2.1/NOTICE
/usr/share/java/maven-release-plugin.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-maven-release-plugin.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/maven-release-maven-release-plugin.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-maven-release-plugin.pom

References

maven-release-plugin.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install maven-release-plugin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.