How To Install unzoo on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install unzoo on Rocky Linux 8. unzoo is ZOO archive extractor

Introduction

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

What is unzoo

‘unzoo’ is a zoo archive extractor. A zoo archive is a file that contains several files, called its members, usually in compressed form to save space. ‘unzoo’ can list all or selected members or extract all or selected members, i.e., uncompress them and write them to files. It cannot add new members or delete members. For this you need the zoo archiver, called ‘zoo’, written by Rahul Dhesi.

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

Install unzoo 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 unzoo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unzoo

Install unzoo 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 unzoo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unzoo

How To Uninstall unzoo on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove unzoo

unzoo Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/unzoo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/85d8c3ed874ac72b925ba214513560ad9a6cd7
/usr/share/doc/unzoo
/usr/share/doc/unzoo/unzoo.txt

References

Summary

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