How To Install launcher.properties on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install libcommons-launcher-java

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install libcommons-launcher-java

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is launcher.properties and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install launcher.properties on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install launcher.properties on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install launcher.properties using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcommons-launcher-java

Install launcher.properties on Fedora 34 using yum

Because launcher.properties is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install launcher.properties package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcommons-launcher-java

How to upgrade (update) a single package launcher.properties using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like launcher.properties in this example you should use the following command:

yum update libcommons-launcher-java

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade libcommons-launcher-java

How to Upgrade launcher.properties on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update libcommons-launcher-java

How To remove launcher.properties from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the launcher.properties package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove libcommons-launcher-java

Extra info and code examples

Commons-launcher eliminates the need for a batch or shell script to launch a Java class. Some situations where elimination of a batch or shell script may be desirable are: * You want to avoid having to determining where certain application paths are e.g. your application's home directory, etc. Determining this dynamically in a Windows batch scripts is very tricky on some versions of Windows or when softlinks are used on Unix platforms. * You want to avoid having to handle native file and path separators or native path quoting issues. * You need to enforce certain system properties e.g. java.endorsed.dirs when running with JDK 1.4. * You want to allow users to pass in custom JVM arguments or system properties without having to parse and reorder arguments in your script. This can be tricky and/or messy in batch and shell scripts. * You want to bootstrap system properties from a configuration file instead hard-coding them in your batch and shell scripts. * You want to provide localized error messages which is very tricky to do in batch and shell scripts.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install launcher.properties using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the launcher.properties from Fedora 34.

See also: