How To Install zinnia-utils on CentOS 8

zinnia-utils is Utils for the zinnia library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zinnia-utils on CentOS 8.

What is zinnia-utils

The zinnia-utils package provides utilities for zinnia library that use zinnia.

We can use yum or dnf to install zinnia-utils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zinnia-utils.

Install zinnia-utils on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install zinnia-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zinnia-utils

Install zinnia-utils on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install zinnia-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zinnia-utils

How To Uninstall zinnia-utils on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the zinnia-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove zinnia-utils

zinnia-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/zinnia
/usr/bin/zinnia_convert
/usr/bin/zinnia_learn
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/79c0c3ed7d8ac787829ba68755b8d5a3aafd6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/31c832fc96773f13ed4f888190c8e9db06efe5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/df9614d70cc4c57040d7fa11ea93f87944cfab

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zinnia-utils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.