How To Install cabextract on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cabextract on Rocky Linux 8. cabextract is Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cabextract on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cabextract

cabextract is a program which can extract files from cabinet (.cab) archives.

We can use yum or dnf to install cabextract on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cabextract.

Install cabextract on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install cabextract

Install cabextract on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cabextract using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cabextract

How To Uninstall cabextract on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cabextract package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cabextract

cabextract Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/cabextract
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/0dc7883abaf83245d8b5654c26a085e7143f76
/usr/share/doc/cabextract
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/README
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/cabextract
/usr/share/licenses/cabextract/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cabextract.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cabextract on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.