How To Install zziplib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install zziplib.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. zziplib.x86_64 is Lightweight library to easily extract data from zip files

Introduction

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

What is `zziplib.x86_64`

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.

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

Install zziplib.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 zziplib.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zziplib.x86_64

How To Uninstall zziplib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove zziplib.x86_64

zziplib.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libzzip-0.so.10
/usr/lib64/libzzip-0.so.11
/usr/lib64/libzzip-0.so.12
/usr/lib64/libzzip-0.so.13
/usr/lib64/libzzip-0.so.13.0.62
/usr/lib64/libzzipfseeko-0.so.10
/usr/lib64/libzzipfseeko-0.so.11
/usr/lib64/libzzipfseeko-0.so.12
/usr/lib64/libzzipfseeko-0.so.13
/usr/lib64/libzzipfseeko-0.so.13.0.62
/usr/lib64/libzzipmmapped-0.so.10
/usr/lib64/libzzipmmapped-0.so.11
/usr/lib64/libzzipmmapped-0.so.12
/usr/lib64/libzzipmmapped-0.so.13
/usr/lib64/libzzipmmapped-0.so.13.0.62
/usr/lib64/libzzipwrap-0.so.13
/usr/lib64/libzzipwrap-0.so.13.0.62
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/COPYING.MPL
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/COPYING.ZLIB
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/README
/usr/share/doc/zziplib-0.13.62/TODO

References

zziplib.x86_64 website

Summary

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