How To Install spax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install spax.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. spax.x86_64 is Portable archive exchange

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `spax.x86_64`

The pax utility shall read and write archives, write lists of the members of archive files and copy directory hierarchies as is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1.

We can use yum to install spax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spax.x86_64.

Install spax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install spax.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spax.x86_64

How To Uninstall spax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the spax.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove spax.x86_64

spax.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pax
/usr/bin/spax
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/AN-1.2
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/AN-1.3
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/AN-1.3.1
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/AN-1.4
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/AN-1.5
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/AN-1.5.1
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/AN-1.5.2
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/CDDL.Schily.txt
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/README
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/README.linux
/usr/share/doc/spax-1.5.2/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/pax.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spax.1.gz

References

spax.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.