How To Install ark on CentOS 8

ark is Archive manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on CentOS 8.

What is `ark`

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are installed).

We can use yum or dnf to install ark on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ark.

Install ark 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 ark using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ark

Install ark 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 ark using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ark

How To Uninstall ark on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the ark package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ark

ark Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/c26cc77593e3c08a91e0049239cf39495eb685
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.ark.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/ark.kcfg
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ark.svgz
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ark
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ark/ark_viewer.rc
/usr/share/licenses/ark
/usr/share/licenses/ark/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/man/ca/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/gl/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.ark.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/kerfuffle.xml
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/ark.categories

References

ark website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.