How To Install zziplib-utils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install zziplib-utils on Rocky Linux 8. zziplib-utils is Utilities for the zziplib library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zziplib-utils on Rocky Linux 8.

What is zziplib-utils

The zziplib library is intentionally lightweight, it offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a single zip file. Applications can bundle files into a single zip archive and access them. The implementation is based only on the (free) subset of compression with the zlib algorithm which is actually used by the zip/unzip tools. This packages contains all the utilities that come with the zziplib library.

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

Install zziplib-utils 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 zziplib-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zziplib-utils

Install zziplib-utils 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 zziplib-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zziplib-utils

How To Uninstall zziplib-utils on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove zziplib-utils

zziplib-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/unzip-mem
/usr/bin/unzzip
/usr/bin/unzzip-big
/usr/bin/unzzip-mem
/usr/bin/unzzip-mix
/usr/bin/zzcat
/usr/bin/zzdir
/usr/bin/zzxorcat
/usr/bin/zzxorcopy
/usr/bin/zzxordir
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/4f2bb8afbcac0b9bc0d8963baac28c302d0d53
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/5a9bbc896667bc376dbf9446b8e78afc968001
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/236deee3d36194810663783c86db260563f60d
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/3bb401f56848b1c52c7012799b8ef59f2c96a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/4fd1707df6183bf6135e1a429f05c7aa9e2373
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/2a1e6cdd66a6a31e914cb19f36f2e8311ab1cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/08238c37e9e132158548d526e869627bc31050
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/8bdcf06c59bec47f8b1a9be6023da2525a45ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/3f473de40484df3714cc49c4d33bbd8be1b3c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/f35888f7b36964f7a26a5b8843d7f1084e743f

References

Summary

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