How To Install upx on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install upx
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is upx
UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install upx
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install upx.
Install upx 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 upx
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install upx
Install upx 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 upx
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install upx
How To Uninstall upx on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the upx
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove upx
upx Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/upx
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/3dfbd21edab61898a2887fb7555a229238848b
/usr/share/doc/upx
/usr/share/doc/upx/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/upx/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/upx/PROJECTS
/usr/share/doc/upx/README
/usr/share/doc/upx/README.1ST
/usr/share/doc/upx/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/upx
/usr/share/licenses/upx/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/upx/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/upx.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install upx
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.