How To Install appx-util on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install appx-util on CentOS 8.
What is appx-util
appx is a tool which creates and optionally signs Microsoft Windows APPX packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install appx-util on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install appx-util.
Install appx-util on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install appx-util using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install appx-util
Install appx-util on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install appx-util using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install appx-util
How To Uninstall appx-util on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the appx-util package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove appx-util
appx-util Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/appx
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/3e7b3c5b483fc61a1fc5893ee84eb7b2132e7a
/usr/share/doc/appx-util
/usr/share/doc/appx-util/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/appx-util/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/appx-util
/usr/share/licenses/appx-util/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/appx-util/LICENSE-BSD
/usr/share/licenses/appx-util/LICENSING.md
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install appx-util on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.