How Do I Upgrade Fail2ban 0.8.14 to 0.10.3 ?

Download fail2ban from:  http://www.fail2ban.org/
Then this should... be done (according to the README.md...)
    tar xvfj fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2
    cd fail2ban-0.10.3
    python setup.py install

After which the setup should be in /etc/fail2ban....

Do I need to remove what is there already?  If so, what commands will remove the files.

Yes. Remove installed Fail2Ban first, via your package manager.

Looks like Linux 2 uses yum, so you'll remove your Fail2Ban RPMs via a yum command... likely...

yum remove fail2ban

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If this fails, then likely Fail2Ban has another package name, which you'll have to dig around to find... likely...

yum list installed | grep -v fail2ban

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Yes, Linux 2 uses Yum but in my original question please note:

I am on a Linux 2 server which prevents me from loading any repositories or using Yum to install it.

You can make a backup of the current /etc/fail2ban before removing it. You jails would be handy to keep near by at hand to either use again or use as template for a new jails.

I made a backup of the jails and filters but I am having trouble getting the archive to explode.  I used wget from the git archives.

https://gyazo.com/33c28abe472d6a6d9d18bb3e1ca35409

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Here is the listing of the directory showing the archive and what it is named.

https://gyazo.com/391841820343d6e228b729f0bdaa5aaf

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before removing the fail2ban  take backup of custom configuration if any,

download the latest fail2ban from following link,

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/archive/0.10.tar.gz
 extract and install
 make sure yiu have python version >=2.6

   tar xvfj fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2
    cd fail2ban-0.10.3
    python setup.py install

try:   wget https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/archive/0.10.tar.gz  or curl https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/archive/0.10.tar.gz -o fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2
I have no idea what gyazo  is...
fail2ban is maintained ongithub, so that is the original source.

gyazo is just a screenshot application

[root@ip-172-31-8-214 ~]# ls -la
total 84
dr-xr-x---  4 root root   244 Sep  2 10:46 .
dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root   283 Jul 25 16:52 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    25 Jul 22 17:49 .aws
-rw-------  1 root root 23742 Sep  2 05:21 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    18 Oct 18  2017 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   176 Oct 18  2017 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   176 Oct 18  2017 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   100 Oct 18  2017 .cshrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   123 Sep  2 10:46 fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2
-rw-------  1 root root   866 Sep  2 04:38 .mysql_history
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 22322 Jul 26 12:09 ps_mem.py
-rw-------  1 root root  1024 Aug 21 07:34 .rnd
drwx------  2 root root    29 Jul 10 17:46 .ssh
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   129 Oct 18  2017 .tcshrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1974 Jul 17 13:17 tortix-install.log
[root@ip-172-31-8-214 ~]# tar xvfj fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

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File file fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2 probably tells you it is html...
Try to add -L to the curl command lineto pickup redirects.   (curl is more a basic API which needs to be told more)
curl -L https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/archive/0.10.tar.gz -o fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2

That should yield the bz2 file...  file fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2  will tell you..

tar jxf filename.tar.bz2 should work

I got the file but I am still getting an error:

[root@ip-172-31-8-214 etc]# tar xvfj fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@ip-172-31-8-214 etc]# tar jxf fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

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Expanding on noci's update... the f option must directly before file, so just swap your f + j.

 Likely tar jxf fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2 fails because you may have a corrupt file.

Try file fail2ban-0.10.3.tar.bz2 + see if you have some other magic number (file type) come up.

Noci, your responses were correct and also your extract command.  I have it installed now but there is some problem with not all of the jails working.  However, I will create another question about that.