How To Install appx-util on CentOS 8

appx-util is Utility to create Microsoft .appx packages

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.