How To Install freeze on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeze on Rocky Linux 8.
What is freeze
Freeze is an old file compressor and decompressor that is not in common use anymore, but can be useful if the need ever arises to dearchive files compressed with it.
We can use yum or dnf to install freeze on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeze.
Install freeze 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 freeze using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freeze
Install freeze 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 freeze using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freeze
How To Uninstall freeze on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the freeze package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freeze
freeze Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/fcat
/usr/bin/freeze
/usr/bin/melt
/usr/bin/statist
/usr/bin/unfreeze
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/be41397bf1d4d225479cd95640b36132333232
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/fb8e7c0b2f78bba2e6a07bf280121043ea3c52
/usr/share/doc/freeze
/usr/share/doc/freeze/Freeze_license_email.txt
/usr/share/doc/freeze/MANIFEST
/usr/share/doc/freeze/README
/usr/share/man/man1/fcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freeze.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/melt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/statist.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unfreeze.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeze on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
